[hobbit] No Subject On Mail Alerts

[David Gore]

mail on Solaris including Solaris 9, doesn't include the -s flag.  Look 
at the man page, you would want to set MAIL to mailx:

MAIL=mailx

man mail
man mailx

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Andy France wrote:
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>>>"Henrik Stoerner" wrote on 04/02/2005 19:33
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>>>>The email alerts I get from my hobbit user have no subject line.
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>>>Well, mine do :-)
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> Yay! ;-)
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>>>What system is this on - Linux, Solaris, BSD or ... ?
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> SunOS zpnz-mtm-bb01 5.9 Generic_117172-05 i86pc i386 i86pc
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>>>What command is used to send mail on your system ?
>>>What's the MAIL setting in your hobbitserver.cfg file ?
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> MAIL="mail"
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>>>Try this. Login as the hobbit user, cd to the server/ directory and
>>>run this command:
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>>>$ ./bin/bbcmd --env=etc/hobbitserver.cfg hobbitd_alert --test
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> osiris.hswn.dk cpu
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> <SNIP>
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>>>The command that is used to send mail is shown in the line beginning
>>>with "Mail alert with command" - it should include a subject, so if it
>>>doesn't when the mail shows up in your mailbox, you may have to use a
>>>different MAIL setting on your system.
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>>"Christopher T. Beers" wrote on 05/02/2005 18:16:34:
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>>I always thought that is how it was supposed to be and that the SMS or
>>shorter messages just made it smaller and had a subject.  Guess I should
>>have tried it.
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>>Solaris the mail command does not accept -s but mailx does.  I changed it
>>in hobbitserver.cfg to mailx and everything works fine.
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> <SNIP>
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> Thanks Henrik and Chris - I am indeed running Solaris 9 x86 and changing
> the "MAIL=" directive in hobbitserver.cfg did the trick.  Any chance the
> configure script can be updated to do this by default on Solaris?
> 
> Henrik - when I ran the test I got the following errors:
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> bash-3.00$ ./bin/bbcmd --env=etc/hobbitserver.cfg hobbitd_alert --test
> zd2sv1 vmio
> 2005-02-07 09:31:17 Unknown option '--test'
> 2005-02-07 09:31:17 Unknown option 'zd2sv1'
> 2005-02-07 09:31:17 Unknown option 'vmio'
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> I am, however, still running B6 rather than RC1 as I didn't get any reply
> about my conn/fping problems after I upgraded :-)  I'd link to the message
> but the February archives don't seem to be up yet.  The subject was "Re:
> [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0-RC1 available - conn errors" and it was sent 03/02/2005
> 04:24 GMT.
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> Thanks and regards,
> Andy.
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