On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:22:45AM -0400, M3 Freak wrote:
> Amanda is using "mail", and it works fine (just sent a test message
> using "mail").  Here's what I got when I typed in what you suggested: 
> 
> UNCOMPRESS_PATH="/usr/bin/gzip" MAILER="/usr/bin/Mail"

However, do you have "mail" aliased?  (I do :)
And note, amanda's mailer is "Mail", not "mail".
Does Mail work?


> I have another question.  The "/etc/crontab" file's default setup on my
> RH9 system is as follows:
> 
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root

The parameter in the amanda.conf file "mailto" (lowercase) is
set correctly isn't it?

But the uppercase form does appear in the source code.  I don't know
if it might pick this up from the environment.  I don't think so,
but just in case, you could run your crontab entries as:

        ? ? ? ? ? MAILTO=<amanda_user> amcheck -m

I.e. put an assignment of MAILTO in front of the command.
This is called a keyword parameter and only sets the parameter
for that one command.  Ex.    TZ=PST8PDT date   would tell me
the time and date in california without changing "my" TZ value.

-- 
Jon H. LaBadie                  jon AT jgcomp DOT com
 JG Computing
 4455 Province Line Road        (609) 252-0159
 Princeton, NJ  08540-4322      (609) 683-7220 (fax)