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How to log output to maillog?
On my current Debian setup, I have a file /var/log/mail.log which Dovecot, Postfix, and Spamassassin's spamd all output messages to. I know that the logger command can output to syslog, but is there ...
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How to pass a CTRL-D to a command line within a script?
I am using this line
( cat bodyText.txt; uuencode backup.tar ) | mail -s "backup" myEmail@myserver.com
inside a bash script that will be fired by cron.
This line is almost perfect, but it hangs ...
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Bash port auto upgrading script in cron doesn't work properly?
I've been recently try to write a script to automate checks for new version of ports and software installed on my FreeBSD server. This script is added to root's crontab and fires daily. If I run it ...
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$(tail) into variable removing \n
I am doing the following:
x="Hello to the world of tomorrow\n <pre>";
x="${x}$(tail -n 50 log/logfile.log)"
x="${x}</pre>";
echo -e $x | ./perlscript
The Perl script:
#!perl
# ...
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Disable mail check on login?
When I login to console, e.g tty1, I usually see a message No mail, I know there's some program checking email on login, but I don't use that, how can I disable that command ?
I tried to grep from ...
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send html using mailx
I'd like to send a html file from a host using mailx but instead of interpreting it as html it would send it out as text (html codes). Is there a way to send it as html?
(cat <<EOCAT
Subject: ...
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How do I configure mutt to display the date header in my local time zone in the pager?
When I view a message in the pager mutt displays the time in the Date header in UTC rather than my local time zone. The index view displays the local time correctly. I found this old mailing list post ...
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How to remove “You have mail” welcome message
When I open up my terminal it says "you have mail", anyone has any idea of why? I am running OS X, but since it too is based on Unix and relies on files such as bashrc, bash_profile etc. I thought ...
