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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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