F10: Error piping to "mail"

Ray Curtis ray at ccux.com
Sun Jan 11 23:34:09 UTC 2009


Ray Curtis wrote:
> 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
> 
Sorry fingers got ahead of brain:

should be:
mail -s "Daily Woot" root < index.html



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