how to send mail without human intervention?

2002-09-21 Thread Net Llama!
I'm writing a bash script where I need to send email out depending on certain conditions within the script. I'm thought that I could use 'mail' to do the job, but it seems to require human intervention to send the message out. I'm trying: mail -n -s another test of mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] yet

Re: how to send mail without human intervention?

2002-09-21 Thread Net Llama!
grrr...i hate it when i do this. ok, i figured out a workaround (although not what i'd call ideal). I can redirect the contents of a file into that mail command like so: mail -n -s another test of mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/whatever i just wish there was a way to just specify the body

what is the command

2002-09-21 Thread Keith Antoine
I cannot find the command that will rewrite the grub boot to the mbr, did have it somewhere. Also a grub boot floppy, need one of those too. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer,

Re: Intel LaGrande

2002-09-21 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Friday 20 September 2002 16:40, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: It may be optional now but as soon as they can MS will make it non-optional. That's what they've done for everything so far - once they got the software market sewed up they hiked prices and but the screws to everyone. If you look

Re: [chat]

2002-09-21 Thread ronnie gauthier
God's speed and fair winds On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:10:24 +0800 m.w.chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bon voyage... ronnie gauthier wrote: Ah, the famous sniff of fools, sails again. no way, mon ami. besidse, sniff, not smoke. will inhale better. -- .~.Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. In

Re: Update GCC from 2.95.2: 2.95.3, 3.1.1, or 3.2?

2002-09-21 Thread Collins
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:18:58 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Wunder wrote: On Friday 20 September 2002 07:54 am, Bob Raymond wrote: On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 13:39, Tim Wunder wrote: snip OK. From what I've read on GenToo, I need to boot into it to install. IfI can

Re: your broken glibc/atexit problem solution!!!!

2002-09-21 Thread Tim Wunder
Interesting... maybe this will help me... On Saturday 21 September 2002 12:46 am, Greg Schafer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ok, I have reinstated mention of this on my tweaks page. Hopefully this might assist in stopping many people from building systems with

Re: what is the command

2002-09-21 Thread Collins
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 10:42:22 + (UTC) Anita Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:04:41 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: I cannot find the command that will rewrite the grub boot to the mbr, did have it somewhere. Also a grub boot floppy, need one of those too.

Re: Questions hindering my use of Linux

2002-09-21 Thread Lee
Ken Moffat wrote: Bonez wrote: Dear Group: I have a few questions I am trying to resolve, in my use of linux. First, for those curious, I am running Caldera Open Linux Workstation 3.1, on a Pentium II machine, with 296mb ram. Here are my problems: When rebooting, I end

RE: how to send mail without human intervention?

2002-09-21 Thread Wil McGilvery
Are you using Mailx? I thought mailx was intended for use within scripts. hth Wil http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/mailx.1.asp -Original Message- From: Net Llama! [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sat 9/21/2002 2:51 AM To:

Re: what is the command

2002-09-21 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Anita Lewis responded to Keith Antoine: On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:04:41 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: I cannot find the command that will rewrite the grub boot to the mbr, did have it somewhere. Also a grub boot floppy, need one of those too. grub-install I think. Try 'apropos grub' for

Re: symbol count in a text file [iptables log]

2002-09-21 Thread M.W. Chang
I could figure this one out. but how to list all possible combinations of DPT= in a text file? There should be an existing shell util that will do something like this: select distinct DPT=* from textfile then I need to direct each combination into a file and apply wc on it to produce a

Re: symbol count in a text file [iptables log]

2002-09-21 Thread Andrew Mathews
M.W. Chang wrote: I could figure this one out. but how to list all possible combinations of DPT= in a text file? There should be an existing shell util that will do something like this: select distinct DPT=* from textfile then I need to direct each combination into a file and apply

Re: what is the command

2002-09-21 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Keith Antoine asked inter alia: Also a grub boot floppy, need one of those too Take a look at the excellent SxS: http://linux-sxs.org/grubflop.html -- Leon A. Goldstein Powered by Libranet 1.9.1 Debian Linux System 5151 ___ Linux-users mailing

grub (vga = ) parameters

2002-09-21 Thread Keith Morse
Just trying to find documentation where the different modes are defined. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: grub (vga = ) parameters

2002-09-21 Thread Bob Raymond
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 19:28, Keith Morse wrote: Just trying to find documentation where the different modes are defined. /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/modedb.txt substitute /usr/src/linux for wherever your kernel sources happen to be. You might want to poke around the other files in the

Re: what is the command

2002-09-21 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 20:42, Anita Lewis wrote: On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:04:41 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: I cannot find the command that will rewrite the grub boot to the mbr, did have it somewhere. Also a grub boot floppy, need one of those too. grub-install I think. Try 'apropos grub' for

Re: what is the command

2002-09-21 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 01:43, Leon A. Goldstein wrote: Anita Lewis responded to Keith Antoine: On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:04:41 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: I cannot find the command that will rewrite the grub boot to the mbr, did have it somewhere. Also a grub boot floppy, need one of those

Re: what is the command

2002-09-21 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 03:33, Leon A. Goldstein wrote: Keith Antoine asked inter alia: Also a grub boot floppy, need one of those too Take a look at the excellent SxS: http://linux-sxs.org/grubflop.html Yeah, got there this morning and copied said document, but thanks anyway. I keep losing

found something useful at last

2002-09-21 Thread Keith Antoine
As you know I have been making rpms for Calder 3.1.1 update for a while using checkinstall. This has not been the answer to all my prayers by a long chalk, some packages needed spec files but I am totally ignorant with spec files. But today I found a site http://www.npsnet.com/danf/software/

kdesu konqueror

2002-09-21 Thread Keith Antoine
Use this quite a bit but recently it no longer starts after enterring the root password. Both the std konqueror and the su variation havr the same permissions, they would have I guess but the su no longer appears, tried it in a terminal but no feedback from that. Anyone any ideas what I can do

Can't send mail through netscape 7

2002-09-21 Thread Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo
Hi, I'm using Netscape 7 on Mandrake 8.1. I can receive mail from pop and imap but I cannot send. The compose windows just get trying forever. My smtp is netscape : smtp.netscape.net Afeter trying a lot of things I ran: --

yup me agin, bootcd

2002-09-21 Thread Keith Antoine
I am trying to make a grub bootcd, ths SxS example says: losetup /dev/loop1 /tmp/cdboot.288 and it comes back as no comand 'losetup', where does that come from ? -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime

Re: Can't send mail through netscape 7

2002-09-21 Thread Andrew Mathews
Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo wrote: Hi, I'm using Netscape 7 on Mandrake 8.1. I can receive mail from pop and imap but I cannot send. The compose windows just get trying forever. My smtp is netscape : smtp.netscape.net snip Unless your ISP is running an open relay mail server you

Re: how to send mail without human intervention?

2002-09-21 Thread Net Llama!
thanks, but i don't want to have to use PHP for this. Ken Moffat wrote: Net Llama! wrote: I'm writing a bash script where I need to send email out depending on certain conditions within the script. I'm thought that I could use 'mail' to do the job, but it seems to require human

Re: yup me agin, bootcd

2002-09-21 Thread Net Llama!
Keith Antoine wrote: I am trying to make a grub bootcd, ths SxS example says: losetup /dev/loop1 /tmp/cdboot.288 and it comes back as no comand 'losetup', where does that come from ? util-linux -- ~ L. Friedman

Re: how to send mail without human intervention?

2002-09-21 Thread Joel Hammer
I don't see my first post on this as having gotten to the list, so, again: echo My Message | mail -s Important Message addressee Joel On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 05:23:36PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: thanks, but i don't want to have to use PHP for this. Ken Moffat wrote: Net Llama! wrote:

Re: Update GCC from 2.95.2: 2.95.3, 3.1.1, or 3.2?

2002-09-21 Thread Net Llama!
Collins wrote: On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:18:58 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim, i'm serious, don't do this. chroot'd linux installs are not a good idea. Things will kinda work, but over time, it will be a disaster of processes dying, poor performance, and screwed up networking. If

Re: how to send mail without human intervention?

2002-09-21 Thread Net Llama!
excellent, perfect! i don't know why that didn't work for me before. thanks! Joel Hammer wrote: This works for me: echo My message | mail -s Testing addressee Joel On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:51:26PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: grrr...i hate it when i do this. ok, i figured out a

WP8 and libsafe problem

2002-09-21 Thread Anita Lewis
Someone wrote to me trying to figure out why WP8 would not install on RH for him. He found out that the problem was that he was running libsafe. He said in order to install or to run WP with libsafe he needed to do the following: --- + remove the libsafe

Re: what is the command

2002-09-21 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Keith Antoine wrote: I keep losing the mbr with the testing etc that I have been doing, being that I am a geriatric, saves on reinstalls. You're not the only one. I keep a WS 3.1 GRUB floppy next to my lab rat and use it frequently. The last opportunity was installing SuSE 8. YAST changed

Re: what is the command

2002-09-21 Thread Ken Moffat
Leon A. Goldstein wrote: Another useful recovery tool is BeOS. It takes little drive real estate and time to install, and its boot loader is nigh universal. Is it available somewhere? I've always been curious about it. -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't send mail through netscape 7

2002-09-21 Thread James McDonald
Unless your ISP is running an open relay mail server you need to specify their mail server for your outbound mail, not netscape's. Yep and running an open relay is the same as saying Welcome spammers a CEO of a company told the IT dept to open up the internet connected exchange box so

Re: what is the command

2002-09-21 Thread ronnie gauthier
I did a little looking at it a while back when setting up a radio station, seems it is used for that mostly. BeOS was sold and is no longer free. There is a personal version and there is development going on with the old code but as far as I could tell unless you want to spend money its a dead