[ale] Solaris/Unix newsgroup

[Frank Johnson]

I too am interested in a solaris newsgroup if there is one...


Joseph Rattz Jr wrote:

> 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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