Neil Bothwick writes: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:29:44 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> I can confirm that sending email from the commandline now works: > >> How do I tell portage to simply use the 'mail' command? > > AFAIR there used to be an option for this, but it's not in the docs. > Have you tried > > PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="user@address localhost" > > Or leave MAILURI unset in which case it will deliver to > root@localhost.
What about PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND="cat '\${LOGFILE}' | mail -s 'ebuild log for \${PACKAGE}' user@address" Doesn't seem to work here, though. Even if I set PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM to "custom" and PORTAGE_ELOG_COMMAND to an existing script, it is not being called. Wonko