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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Automating Email SUS report Post 302309015 by mlott on Tuesday 21st of April 2009 01:42:16 AM
Old 04-21-2009
Hi

This is a starting point I guess, so I hope it is of some help. Not sure why you want to use Entourage specifically when you can use the "mail" program that comes pre-compiled in OS X, but hey, whatever you need.

Firstly you'll need to get the list somewhere on the filesystem. In this example script it is in a file called sus_list.txt under the /tmp/ directory.


Code:
!/bin/sh

#============================
# Define admin email address
NOTIFY="one@you.com, two@you.com"

# Get computer name
C_NAME=`/usr/sbin/scutil --get ComputerName`

# Define a function
mailOUT ()
{
        echo From: ${C_NAME} - Monday Morning ARD SUS Notification \
        > /tmp/sus_mailout.txt
        echo ----- >> /tmp/sus_mailout.txt
        echo Timestamp: `date` >> /tmp/sus_mailout.txt
        echo ----- >> /tmp/sus_mailout.txt
        echo "Please find below the list of clients that need patching" \
        >> /tmp/sus_mailout.txt
	echo ----- >> /tmp/sus_mailout.txt
	echo "" >> /tmp/sus_mailout.txt
	cat /tmp/sus_list.txt >> /tmp/sus_mailout.txt
        cat /tmp/sus_mailout.txt | mail -s "From: ${C_NAME} - Monday \
        Morning ARD SUS Notification" ${NOTIFY}
}

if [ -f /tmp/sus_list.txt ]
then
	mailOUT
else
	# log error to the syslog
	logger "SUS: File /tmp/sus_list.txt does not exist"
fi
exit 0

This script will have to be made executable or called like this

Code:
sh /path/to/script

I usually place scripts like this in /usr/local/scripts/ but that is a personal preference.

Normally I'd say to use Launchd to handle the scheduling of the script, but the StartCalendarInterval is not tuned enough for this at present, so it's back to good old cron. Personally, I wouldn't have this run by the root account as there is nothing in there that requires root privileges. To that end, in your crontab, add the following so that it will run at 0900 every Monday:

Code:
0 9 * * 1 /usr/local/scripts/mailout.sh

HTH a bit,

Mike
 

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mac2unix

dos2unix(1)						      General Commands Manual						       dos2unix(1)

NAME

       dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter

SYNOPSYS

       dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]

       Options:

       [-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.

OPTIONS

       The following options are available:

       -h --help
	      Print online help.

       -k --keepdate
	      Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.

       -q --quiet
	      Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.

       -V --version
	      Prints version information.

       -c --convmode convmode
	      Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.

       -o --oldfile file ...
	      Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.

       -n --newfile infile outfile ...
	      New  file  mode.	Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be
	      used or you WILL lost your files.

EXAMPLES

       Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.

	      dos2unix

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt b.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode.  Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode.  Convert	c.txt  from  Mac  to  Unix
       ascii format.

	      dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt

	      dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.

	      dos2unix -k a.txt

	      dos2unix -k -o a.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.

	      dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.

	      dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

	      dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

       Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt.  Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.

	      dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt

DIAGNOSTICS

BUGS

       The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode.  If you know why is that so, please tell me.

AUTHORS

       Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>

       Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>

MISCELLANY

       Tested environment:

	      Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8

	      SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3

	      MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02

       Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.

SEE ALSO

       unix2dos(1) mac2unix(1)

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