Brian wrote:
Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:48:24PM +0100, brian wrote:
Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Brian wrote:
Hi,
I have a Debian Sarge box and an NSLU2 (Unslung) that I have setup
to send me mails when they startup, reboot, and do various other
things, they use Nail to sned the emails to me. I tried to setup my
mothers PC to do the same, no way I can get it to work. If I run
the scripts by hand all works OK.
So I have a script /usr/sbin/mailtext.sh, that calls Nail with 2
parameters. In RC.0, RC.3 and RC.5 is have symbolic links to a
script in /etc/init.d that calls mailtext.sh.
Mailtext gets called, and I have inserted logger statements in the
script, those messages appear in my /var/log/messages, so I know
that my script is called when it should be.
But, I never get the mails. If I run the script by hand as root
then I get the mail. So I thought maybe something else needs to be
started beforehand, but this runs as last in rc.3 amd rc.5, so
network is up by then.
Just wondering how to debug this further, how can I get any error
messages from nail into my logs? All I tried up till now doesn't
seem to work.
Cheers Brian
try adding some logging to the script at the beginning and the end to a
a file.
echo "starting my script" >> mylogfile.log
cheers,
Kev
Kev,
just FYI here is the script:
mailtext.sh
#!/bin/sh
set -x
/bin/logger "/opt/sbin/mailtext Sending "$1" to Brian"
echo "$2" | nail -v -s Slug1:"$1" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That gives plenty of output, just can't figure out a way to capture
it yet.
Cheers Brian
echo "$2" | nail -v -s Slug1:"$1" [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>
mylogfile 2>&1
-Kev
Kev,
that did it, pretty basic, I guess I should have been able to figure it
out myself. Thanks very much.
Cheers Brian
So, the captured output shows me that nail is not starting at all. My
init.d script calls mailtext.sh and both write logger statements that I
see in /var/log/messages. During startup and shutdown I see all these
messages, but no nail output. If I run any of the scripts, once logged
on via ssh as root, then everything runs OK.
Can this be a permissions thing? Under what user do the init scripts
run? Nail executable has 755 and root:root.
I am calling nail giving it its full path, so I assume that is not a
problem, I would have expected some kind of output if that had been the
problem. Hows about nail not boing able to find any .mailrc file?
Cheers Brian
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