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

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

On 4/9/12 3:58 PM, Martin Ellwood wrote:
> Though you've got a solution with 'nohup', another thought to try: 
> append a status output as shown below.  I'm not really sure what it 
> would mean if it worked, other than the pipe is forced to wait for a 
> status from the mail command?  Maybe it has to wait for the internal 
> fork to complete in that case.
>
> echo "hello" | mail -s "Test" fred || echo 'Mail command failed'
Martin,

I'm pretty sure this won't help.  I had already tried adding a
line to the script:
    echo $status
which would have pretty much the same effect, right?

Hang on...  Easy enough to try...  Nope.  Same problem.

--Fred
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> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com 
> <mailto:fred@bristle.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 4/9/12 2:22 PM, Martin Dellwo wrote:
>
>         Just out of curiosity, can you try it with tcsh instead of
>         csh?  Or with bash?
>
>
>     On this server, /bin/csh is a symlink to /bin/tcsh, so that shouldn't
>     matter.  I tried it anyhow.  Same problem.
>
>        #!/bin/tcsh
>
>        echo "hello" | mail -s "Test" fred
>
>     I also tried bash.  Same problem.
>
>        #!/bin/bash
>
>        echo "hello" | mail -s "Test" fred
>
>     --Fred
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