mailx without body

[yc_2]

Hi,

How to go about sending a blank mail using mailx.


Thanks in advance,
YC

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Try:

mailx -s "Subject if you want" receipient
.
(that is a period on a line by itself)
I am curious, why would you want to send a mail with a null body?

[yc_2]

Hi,

Thanks for your advise.

My pkg in MC/SG is unstable, it halted and never fail over for a few times. Instead of waiting the users to initiate the compliant, it will be good to have a simple script to monitor (ease of maintenance) the status of the pkg. Hope to get inform thro mail when it is down.

Rgds,
YC

[yc_2]

Hi Kofi,

It works in the command line but not in a script. Any changes require for scripting ?


Rgds,
YC

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Ah I see. The only thing you have to watch out for is that your network is stable and the message will get dilivered. To be absolutely sure, you could set up a dial out modem on the server and configure it to dial an alphanumeric pager with a special code when there is a problem.

Good luck.

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

in a script, use
echo .\n | mailx -s "test 2" arthiak

that is echo period backslash n

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Sorry Leong... I just cut and paste a test case from my machine it should be:

n a script, use
echo .\n | mailx -s "subject if you want" recepient

that is echo period backslash n

[Kofi ARTHIABAH · Accepted solution]

Ahh... I better catch some sleep - here we are:

echo "\n" | mailx -s "subject" recepient

[yc_2]

Hi Kofi,

It works, I really appreciate your time for solving my problem.

Would you like to advise why I can't use the exact syntax from the command line in the script ?

You were saying using a pager to get inform, I have actually think of this as well. It didn't kick off because I am no good in scripting. Would you like to share about how this can be done ?



Thanks,
YC

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

The reason it was not working the same as the command line is because mailx expects inputs from the standard input (interactive) when invoked; the echo command creates a null line which gets passed to the standard input of mailx.

Yes I have a server configured that constantly probes another one (its called from within cron every 5 minutes) I configured a script to use the cu command ( do a man on cu) I will have to post parts of the script later - its on another machine that I cannot reach right now.

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

Leong:

The attached script can be used to send a numeric page to a numeric pager. You can call it from another script that monitors daemons and server health etc.

Good luck

[Jeganathan Venkitasamy]

Hi,

Hope following line syntax will work in script.

mailx -s "subject" receipient < /dev/null

Thanks & regards,
Jeganathan