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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 17:12:24 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: joelh@gnu.org
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: mail log to myself
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In-Reply-To: <199801060640.AAA04202@detlev.UUCP>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 12:40:51AM -0600
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On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 12:40:51AM -0600, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
>>> I have a little cron job that creates a log at night. How can one mail
>>> said log to myself? Its not big only about 300 bytes.
>> mail kwoody < log
>
> Perhaps a subject parameter would be wise, to prevent mail from
> prompting for one. (Recall that the default .mailrc contains 'set
> ask' in it.)
Not a bad suggestion, but in fact I do this regularly (without a
subject--shame on me), and it works fine. I think mail checks whether
its stdin is a tty or not.
Greg