F10: Error piping to "mail"
Ray Curtis
ray at ccux.com
Sun Jan 11 23:25:20 UTC 2009
Steven Stern wrote:
> In the following line of a script, I get an error when attempting to
> pipe content into mail:
>
> cat index.html | mail root -s "Daily Woot"[sdstern at sds-desk tmp]$
>
> WARNING: RunAsUser for MSP ignored, check group ids (egid=500, want=51)
> can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
> Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.
>
> How should I I set permissions to do this without going overboard?
How about:
mail root -s "Daily Woot" < index.html
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Ray Curtis Unix Programmer/Consultant Curtis Consulting
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