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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sending email as background process Post 302343981 by satnamx on Friday 14th of August 2009 09:28:38 AM
Old 08-14-2009
sending email as background process

Hi All,

Solaris
Bash v3x

I have a script that accepts an error code, and if the error code is not 0 then an email is sent using mailx to details the error.

I want to be able to implement the functiuonlity whereby i can send the email in a background process so the script can continue with other logic
and if the email has not completed say within 30 seconds then to abort

does anyone have a code snippet that I could use/ammend?


something like...


#!/bin/bash

<< normal code>>

<<start background process here>>
echo “message” | mailx -s “<Subject>” <recipient mail address>
if not responsing or email not sent within 30 seconds then abort with error message

<< continue normal code here>>

any ideas much appreciated..

Kind Regards
Satnam
 

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Log::Dispatch::Email(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Log::Dispatch::Email(3pm)

NAME
Log::Dispatch::Email - Base class for objects that send log messages via email VERSION
version 2.32 SYNOPSIS
package Log::Dispatch::Email::MySender; use Log::Dispatch::Email; use base qw( Log::Dispatch::Email ); sub send_email { my $self = shift; my %p = @_; # Send email somehow. Message is in $p{message} } DESCRIPTION
This module should be used as a base class to implement Log::Dispatch::* objects that send their log messages via email. Implementing a subclass simply requires the code shown in the SYNOPSIS with a real implementation of the "send_email()" method. CONSTRUCTOR
The constructor takes the following parameters in addition to the standard parameters documented in Log::Dispatch::Output: o subject ($) The subject of the email messages which are sent. Defaults to "$0: log email" o to ($ or @) Either a string or a list reference of strings containing email addresses. Required. o from ($) A string containing an email address. This is optional and may not work with all mail sending methods. o buffered (0 or 1) This determines whether the object sends one email per message it is given or whether it stores them up and sends them all at once. The default is to buffer messages. METHODS
o send_email(%p) This is the method that must be subclassed. For now the only parameter in the hash is 'message'. o flush If the object is buffered, then this method will call the "send_email()" method to send the contents of the buffer and then clear the buffer. o DESTROY On destruction, the object will call "flush()" to send any pending email. AUTHOR
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2011 by Dave Rolsky. This is free software, licensed under: The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible) perl v5.14.2 2012-05-25 Log::Dispatch::Email(3pm)
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