On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I am trying to write a script that will run occasionally, and send email to me
>when certain events happen. I have hit a brick wall in trying to completely
>automate
>either sendmail or mailto. I can get them to run automagically up to where they
>expect a text message followed by ctrl-d. I have tried unsucessfully to get it
>to send the contents of a text file as its message. The man pages for both are
>cryptic as best. The one for mailto seems out of whack to boot..
>
>I found a win app called wsendmail that lets you do this all on one command
>line:
>
>wsendmail <subject> <sender> <recipient> <message - "Typed in quotes" or
>contents of a file>
>
>I even have the source code for wsendmail. I fooled around and compiled it in
>Linux just to see what would happen, but it apparently nees a couple of files,
>and I don't know enough c to get around that!!!
>
>
>Obviously, I would like to do the same in Linux.
>
>Is there something else non-GUI that I could use to completely automate the
>sending of email? Am I missing something obvious in the man pages?
Well if the script is written so that the results of whatever is
being done by the script go to a file then the answer is easy.
#!/bin/bash
touch /tmp/text.file
#your script here.
# and output all commands as >>/tmp.text.file
# Example
ifconfig eth0 >>/tmp/file.txt
# then a small check to see if there is any text in the file.
check=`cat /tmp/text.file | wc -c`
if [ "$check" -gt 0 ]; then
cat /tmp/text.file | mail BryanMoorhead@AlliedHoldings
fi
# of course if there is always going to be text in the file
# then the above if statement is not needed.
# just use at the bottom of the script the cat line.
# Clean up,
rm -f /tmp/file.txt
exit 0
Note the hypens they are left slanting (cant remember the dam proper
name for them) the one on the tilde key.
I would do it in another way, but this is the simplest way i could
think of off the top of my head.
I hope this is what you meant.
>
>Thanks,
>Bryan
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Regards Richard
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