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Re: IDLSpecII: IDL Speed Survey Redux! [message #17475]

Fri, 22 October 1999 00:00

J.D. Smith
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Registered: August 1996

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wmc@bas.ac.uk wrote:
>
> J.D. Smith <jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu> wrote:
>> wmc@bas.ac.uk wrote:
>>> Aside: the auto-email failed, with no obvious indication of why.
>
>> Thanks. The auto-email code is basically:
>
>> spawn,/SH,'mail -s "SUBJ" user@company.com < file 2>&1 1>/dev/null', r
>> if strlen(strtrim(r[0],2)) ne 0 then begin
>> print,'Error sending email.'
>> endif
>
>> If "mail" is not available on your path, or if it is not configured for
>> sending, it will fail. Maybe you could try sending a message to yourself
>> from IDL via spawn in this manner and let me know the results. Make
>> sure something exists in "file". Is there a more generic spawn command
>> I could use to accomodate Alpha's?
>
> The error I get back with that command is:
>
> usage: binmail [-epqbhr] [-f file]
> or binmail [-d] [-r name] [-h N] user ...
>
> It works if I replace "mail" with "Mail". This may be more of a peculiarity of
> our system than a generic alpha thing... but you could let the script have a second
> go with "Mail" if the first send fails, perhaps?
>

I changed it to spawn "Mail", since on the Linux and Solaris systems I
checked on, this was simply a link to "mail", or a link to the same
program as "mail".

Anyone see a problem with this?

JD

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		Re: IDLSpecII: IDL Speed Survey Redux! By: J.D. Smith on Fri, 22 October 1999 00:00
		Re: IDLSpecII: IDL Speed Survey Redux! By: wmc on Fri, 22 October 1999 00:00
		Re: IDLSpecII: IDL Speed Survey Redux! By: J.D. Smith on Thu, 21 October 1999 00:00
		Re: IDLSpecII: IDL Speed Survey Redux! By: wmc on Thu, 21 October 1999 00:00

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