Sending email using a command like mailx or sendmail requires a fork/exec on the child
side then wait on the parent side. This is exactly what the system() call does.
The alternative is to do what sendmail does in C code. system("/usr/bin/sendmail ... ") being infinitely simpler. IF you're sending 100K mail messages per day you should incorporate sendmail code, otherwise for a few dozen messages per day, consider system().
Start here to see what sendmail does, it is open source.
I have my inputfile in the following format :
From:sdhfhg
dsfhsdjfjdsfh
dsfjdjshjsd
djfhsdjfjsdhjds
Error Description
<aa.aa.aa.aa.aa.aa>
From:ksljfsdhfjh
djfdsjkf
sdjwoquk
dsfsdfj
Error Description
<dd.dd.dd.dd.dd>
I want to read the lines from tag 'From:' thrul <aa.aa.aa.aa.aa.aa>... (1 Reply)
Hello experts,
I am using fork() in my code but I am confused which output comes first child or parent?
I did the following code .My book shows parent first but my linux shows child first.Can anyone tell me why?
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
int pid;
printf("I am original process with pid... (5 Replies)
Assume we have an application built on *nix that uses fork()...then the processes procedure is going to act as follow:
X is considered a parent process (first click on application)
Y is considered a child process of X (second click on application)
Z is considered a child process of Y (third... (6 Replies)
hi,
i start using awk and have a very basic problem. here's my code:
#! /usr/bin/awk -f
# 2010, scz
#
{
$1 == "test" { print $2 }
}
this works on the command line but not as "program" - what is the difference between awk programs on the command line and executing awk... (3 Replies)
I writing a program that forks three times but only on the parent process. The three children processes then produces output in order. 1, 2, 3. I am confused on how to do this. I have tried multiple if and else if statements but the output does not come out right. How should I go about doing this? (1 Reply)
Hello everybody.I want to make clear that i am not going to ask from anybody to build my asignement but i have a big problem. I can't seem to find anywhere ONE good example on C about what i am trying to do:wall:.I think it is simple. All i ask is one example, even a link is fine.
So, i want to... (1 Reply)
i'm experimenting fork function and i found this code
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <wait.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(void)
{
int fd;
pid_t p;
p = fork();
fork();
if (p>0) { fork();}
fork();
fork();... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a program for class that needs to do the following:
1. Print the directory entries from the current directory using ncurses
2. Provide a prompt next to each directory entry and allow the user to enter commands that may or may not be about the file
3. Execute those commands in... (1 Reply)
Hello... And thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer me on my question! I've been doing a lot of reading to try and find my answer... But I haven't had any luck
What I'm trying to understand is where a child process inherits global environment variables from? I understand the exec()... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bodisha
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
etrn
System Administration Commandsetrn(8)NAME
etrn - start mail queue run
SYNOPSIS
etrn [-v] server-host [client-hosts]
DESCRIPTION
SMTP's ETRN command allows an SMTP client and server to
interact, giving the server an opportunity to start the pro
cessing of its queues for messages to go to a given host.
This is meant to be used in start-up conditions, as well as
for mail nodes that have transient connections to their ser
vice providers.
The etrn utility initiates an SMTP session with the host
server-host and sends one or more ETRN commands as follows:
If no client-hosts are specified, etrn looks up every host
name for which sendmail(1M) accepts email and, for each
name, sends an ETRN command with that name as the argument.
If any client-hosts are specified, etrn uses each of these
as arguments for successive ETRN commands.
OPTIONS
The following option is supported:
-v The normal mode of operation for etrn is to do all of
its work silently. The -v option makes it verbose,
which causes etrn to display its conversations with
the remote SMTP server.
ENVIRONMENT
No environment variables are used.
FILES
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf sendmail configuration file
SEE ALSO sendmail(1M), RFC 1985.
CAVEATS
Not all SMTP servers support ETRN.
CREDITS
Leveraged from David Muir Sharnoff's expn.pl script. Chris
tian von Roques added support for args and fixed a couple of
bugs.
AVAILABILITY
The latest version of etrn is available in the contrib
directory of the sendmail distribution through anonymous ftp
at ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/ucb/src/sendmail/.
AUTHOR
John T. Beck <john@beck.org>