If you want this to be automated in someway, you will have to run it as a daemon so there is something listening to send mail. Is your question how to set up sendmail as a daemon ONLY to send reports? Or is your question how do you send the reports without running a daemon? I put something like this in some of my scripts cat report.txt | /usr/lib/sendmail -f fromaddress@xxxxxxxxxx -v toaddress@xxxxxxxxxx For easier reading, include a Subject and To header as the first two lines of report.txt... e.g.: # cat report.txt Subject: subject line To: toaddress@xxxxxxxxxx Startreport blah blha yaddayadda endreport # Is that what you're looking for? You will still need a working sendmail.cf file even though you are not running it as a daemon. Ben Yau ================================= 310.235.2500 x232 Card Commerce International, Inc. http://www.cardcommerce.com ================================= > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lito Lampitoc > Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:34 PM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: how to use sendmail as a client > > > When sending e-mail to root it says, > to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:30, xdelay=00:00:00, > mailer=relay, pri=30339, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, > stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] > > Also, as much as possible, I don't want to run the sendmail daemon as > it is insecure, all I want to do is use sendmail to send e-mail to my > admin(root) account in my other box for whatever activities it detected. > > Anish Mathew wrote: > > >>Lito Lampitoc <ral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > > > > > > > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>How do I setup sendmail on one of my box to send e-mail to my >>admin > >>>account in my mail server? > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > >I guess u need to add this line to ur sendmail.mc file > > > >define(`SMART_HOST',`your mail server`) > > > >after that recreate sendmail.cf file using m4 macro > > > >m4 < /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf > > > >restart sendmail daemon after that ur sendmail will be a client > forwarding mail to your main server.. if this is what ur looking for.. > > > >hope that would help > > > >Anish > > > > > > > >--------------------------------- > > ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! > > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
