From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 6 13:35:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88C6337B401 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15pyAh-00026a-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 06 Oct 2001 20:35:43 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id DA378103B; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:27:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:27:02 +0200 From: Cliff Sarginson To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: script question Message-ID: <20011006222702.B1611@tanya.raggedclown.intra> References: <3BBF1F7D.3218276B@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <3BBF1F7D.3218276B@home.com>; from cyu0635@home.com on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:13:02AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:13:02AM -0400, cyu0635@home.com wrote: > Hi all > > I use the following script to mail to log file > but sometimes I got the workings 'Null message, hope that ok' after > running the script > > Why? > and what is wrong? > It's what mail says when..errm the message is "null", or in plain-speak, has no content, is empty, devoid of text, a non-message, existentially phatic. :) as in... mail -s "Hello sailor"