[Toolserver-l] Job scheduling and mail receiving

[River Tarnell]

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In article <4D516A08.5050503 at surfeu.ch>,
Dr. Trigon <dr.trigon at surfeu.ch> wrote:
> Just a short question in [1] is mentioned how to trigger a mail in case
> 
> * the job starts
> * the job finishes
> 
> what about
> 
> * the job print something to stdout like for CRON jobs (in the early
>   days... ;))

I don't think there's a built-in method of doing this.  You could use a 
wrapper script that did something like:

	#! /bin/ksh
	/path/to/mytool 2>&1 | mailx -s "Tool output" $LOGNAME

Or, if you only wanted to receive output on failure:

	#! /bin/ksh
	f=$(mktemp)
	trap "rm -f $f" 0
	/path/to/mytool >$f 2>&1 || <$f mailx -s "Tool output" $LOGNAME

Or only if the command generated output:

	#! /bin/ksh
	f=$(mktemp)
	trap "rm -f $f" 0
	/path/to/mytool >$f 2>&1
	test -s $f && <$f mailx -s "Tool output" $LOGNAME

... etc.

I think you're the first person who's asked about this, but it seems 
like a useful feature, so I'll see if there's a way to make it easier.

	- river.
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