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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:41:22 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        brain_damaged <brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, imgate <IMGate@ns2.MEIway.com>
Subject:   Re: using MAIL command to send messages and copies of logs.
Message-ID:  <20011129004122.P3985@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <200111281422.AA309461118@florida-wireless.com>; from brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:22:35PM -0500
References:  <200111281422.AA309461118@florida-wireless.com>

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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:22:35PM -0500, brain_damaged wrote:
> Hello FreeBSDers,
> I was looking at the mail command to mail some logs 
> or info out.
> Reading the man pages is somewhat informative but 
> lacks so my guessing is it goes something like this
> ka sa ra sa ra life is ooops :-)
> i mean
> mail -s "subject if spaces are used" user@domain.com
> 
> if i want to add a second or third receiptent
> 
> mails -s "subject matter" user@domain.com -c user2@domain.com 
> if i put a third do i use a ; or a ' or a space to seperate ?
> 
> to read in a log file to send to abuse@noc.net
> 
> mails -s "hack attempts" abuse@domain.net -c me@mydomain.com ~r /var/log/messages
> 
> am i clos on any of them.

  $ mail -s "hack attempts" -c me@mydomain.com abuse1@domain1.net
abuse2@domain2.net abuse3@domain3.net < /var/log/messages

Will send the contents of /var/log/messages to buse1@domain1.net,
abuse2@domain2.net, and abuse3@domain3.net, and send a CC to
me@mydomain.com.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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