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With appropriate futzing of the command-line parameters, you can use
sendmail directly.

M.

Hello all --

I am trying to get a remote system that is not running any services to
email me some log files periodically.  I was trying to write a bash
script to be run by "cron" that would mail me the info.

However, after reading the "mail" man page, I cannot find any way to
specify a SMTP server... or any indication that "mail" had the
capability to send mail itself.  I have an availible SMTP server (on
another computer)... Can I get my logs mailed using "mail" or any other
command-line utility?

TiA,
John

I am not familiar with the inner workings of the mail command itself, but
most manual mail clients (pine, etc.) can specify an smtp server.  Or for
scripting you could always install the Perl Mail::Sendmail module and
point it to any smtp server, you just have to make sure that the smtp
server you point it to allows relaying from the IP or hostname you are
sending from.

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Hi!

My english isnt very good but I hope that Ive understood your
question!
You can mail the logfiles with the command "cat <logfile>|mail

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Hello all again,

Thanks for everybody who has replied thus far.  I can't figure out what
I am doing wrong yet...

I tried

and also...
sendmail -C<path to your sendmail.cf> -t <<EOF

both times I see my modem lights blink and data leaves my computer, but
I have yet to receive any e-mail.  I even tried turning on sendmail to see
if it would make a difference (like maybe I would get a return
message (saying some error I would guess))... but no luck.

Do I have to edit /etc/sendmail.cf? (on Red Hat 6.1 anyways)

Sendmail worked fine without modification on a box that had a real static
IP address.  (This one does as well, but since its a masquerading gateway
attached to a private net, I gave it a fake host name.)  Do you think my
mail is getting bounced/dropped?

TiA for any help...

Cheers,
John

Keep it simple:

Therefore you need a SMTP-Server running at your local host.

Second way: Install ncftpget on your local host an tell an appropriate
cron-job to fetch the logfile from the server in question periodically.
(If you need to fetch it via http, use for example wget (it's a gnu-tool).)

Third way: On the remote server, tell the cron-job to send the mail to
your account on the remote server.
Install fetchmail on your local host and tell cron to execute it periodically
to fetch your mail from the remote server.

Contact me in case of further questions, as I'm no regular reader
of comp.os.linux.hardware.

:) Thomas Neurauter

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