topic Re: sending mail message to root from a script in Operating System - HP-UX

sending mail message to root from a script

Ed Hon — Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:44:34 GMT

Within a shell script, how do I send a mail message to root? Thanks.

Re: sending mail message to root from a script

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:48:45 GMT

take your pick:

echo " your message in here ....." | mail root

or
some_command | mail root
or
cat - << EOM | mail root
This
that
and the other line
to
root
EOM

etc.

Re: sending mail message to root from a script

Antoanetta Naghiu — Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:51:03 GMT

The easiest way: as from command line:
mailx -s subject root@boxname.domaniename < message/or/filename

Re: sending mail message to root from a script

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:51:09 GMT

Ed:

...and if you would like to foward other account's mail (such as generated during cron tasks) to root, create /.forward with the list of accounts (one-per-line) that should forward their mail to root.

...JRF...

Re: sending mail message to root from a script

Rick Garland — Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:01:24 GMT

You might also want to use aliases (another option to the /.forward file).
In this way, mail that is sent to root will be aliased to your account.

As opposed to checking the root mail on multiple servers, all servers send the root mail to your mailbox.