[ale] Solaris/Unix newsgroup

[Joseph Rattz Jr]

Does anyone know of a message board like this for Solaris/Unix that
has a WWW or email front end?  I have a Solaris/Unix specific question
and don't have newsgroup access from work.

I don't know what will happen if I do this in Linux, it behaves
differently on NCR Unix than it does the Solaris 2.6 box.  Here is my
problem if anyone knows what is going on.

I want to redirect stderr to an email.  I have had weird results
redirecting stderr.  For example, if I do an ls on a filename that
doesn't exist to get stderr message, I get

> ls asasas
asasas: No such file or directory

This is coming through stderr which is easy enough to verify by
redirecting stdout to /dev/null followed by stderr.  So I KNOW the
message is stderr.

Then I can redirect stderr to stdout like
> ls asasas 2>&1

If I pipe this to tee, everything seems to work fine.  The file I
specify to tee will get created with the correct data in it.

> ls asasas 2>&1 | tee data
asasas: No such file or directory
> cat data
asasas: No such file or directory

But, if I pipe to mail and my id,

> ls asasas 2>&1 | mail myid

I get a mail message, but there is no content to the message.  If I do
the same line as above and don't redirect the stderr, a mail message
doesn't even get created.  To me this indicates that mail must see the
output.  This works just fine on NCR Unix.  I don't know the behavior
on Linux. 

Anyone got any ideas?







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