mail script help

[Guest anon]

Trying to run a script to email me but it fails, any ideas on what im doing wrong here? This is the line that causes the problem:

sed -e 's/$/\n/g' tmp.txt | exim  "Test  Report"  anon@somedomain

This is the error i get;

A message that you sent contained a recipient address that was incorrectly constructed:

Test Report  missing or malformed local part (expected word or "<")

[paul]

maybe should be

"Chris The drunken english geek <anon@somedomain>"

[Guest anon]

maybe should be

"Chris The drunken english geek <anon@somedomain>"

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Damit that works Paul.

 

For anyone thats interested, there's app called logwatch that e-mails you reports from /var/log but it seems to only run on redhat fedora etc. There is no version for MDK. This script takes some interesting tit bits from the logs and e-mails them to you.

 #! /bin/bash
rm -f tmp.txt
touch tmp.txt

echo "***Uptime***" >> tmp.txt
uptime >> tmp.txt

echo "***Disk Usage Report***" >> tmp.txt
df >> tmp.txt
echo "" >> tmp.txt

theDate=`date +'%b %e'`
echo "***Auth Log Report for $theDate***" >> tmp.txt
echo "" >> tmp.txt
echo "Failed Attempts:" >> tmp.txt
echo "______________________________________________" >> tmp.txt
grep "$theDate.*\(failure\|Failed\|Illegal\)" /var/log/auth.log >> tmp.txt
echo "" >> tmp.txt
echo "" >> tmp.txt
echo "Successful Logins:" >> tmp.txt
echo "______________________________________________" >> tmp.txt
grep "$theDate.*Accepted" /var/log/auth.log >> tmp.txt

echo "" >> tmp.txt
echo "***Last Logins***" >> tmp.txt
last >> tmp.txt
echo "" >> tmp.txt

echo "" >> tmp.txt
echo "***Messages***" >> tmp.txt
grep "$theDate"  /var/log/messages >> tmp.txt
echo ""

echo "" >> tmp.txt
echo "***Processes Running***" >> tmp.txt
ps aux >> tmp.txt
echo "" >> tmp.txt

sed -e 's/$/\n/g' tmp.txt | mail -s "Server Report" username@domain.tld

rm -f tmp.txt

You will need to edit the last but one line for your mail program, and also Pauls corection for the email address format.