Re: [PLUG] Why does -t option of ssh cause mail to not be sent?...

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

On 4/9/12 1:58 PM, Pat Barron wrote:
> I wonder if, because you're attached to a terminal, the mail process 
> is catching a SIGHUP or something and dying when the script ends?  
> Maybe try invoking the mailer with "nohup"?
Pat,

That's what I was thinking.  The script process is ending and signalling
the child processes.  But why does the script process end before the
piped mail command completes?  Does mail do an internal fork/exec
or something?

Anyhow, I tried and yes, invoking mail via nohup causes it to send the
mail properly:

    #!/bin/csh -f
    echo "hello" | nohup mail -s "Test" fred

This is an improvement over my previous solution of "sleep 1".

--Fred
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