Subj : mail not tossing
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Rick Smith
Date : Mon Jan 23 2023 06:07 am

Greetings Wilfred!

Monday January 23 2023 08:43, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:

 WV>  * Forwarded from area 'BINKD'
 WV> Hi Rick,

 WV> On 22 Jan 23 09:11, Rick Smith wrote to Michael Dukelsky:
 WV>   about: "mail not tossing":

 RS>> got it working by adding config path to the script.. I have an
 RS>> "export FIDOCONFIG=/etc/ftn/config" in .bashrc is that not
 RS>> sufficient?

 WV> No. From `man bash`:

 WV> "When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash
 WV> reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc then ~/.bashrc when
 WV> those files exist and are readable. This may be inhibited by using the
 WV> --norc option. The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and
 WV> execute commands from file instead of ~/.bashrc.

 WV> When bash is started non-interactively, to run a shell script, for
 WV> example, ..."

Very interesting, thank you wilfred...




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