After I send a mail thr unix with following command
uuencode tmpFile | mailx -s "sub1" emailid
Yet, I havent received this mail at intended mail client.
In order to find out if the sent mail action resulted in failure,
I checked at
/usr/spool/mail/userid
But there also I couldnt find... (1 Reply)
I hope one of you smart people out there can help me with what seems like a real simple questing but I can't quite figure out.
In a script I am doing a cmp on two files. I am trying to check the exit status with an if statement but can't seem to figure out the syntax. If the exit status is 1 I... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I m new to unix and I need a help in FTp-ing a file.
My script is given below
ftp -n <<END_SCRIPT
open $FTP_HOST
user $FTP_USER $FTP_PASSWD
lcd $TEMPFOLDER
cd $FTP_LOCATION
put $1
bye
END_SCRIPT
exit_status=$?
if ; then
log "successfully FTPed the file"
else... (5 Replies)
I'm developing a script that spawns many background processes that will be executing concurrently and need to check the exit status of each spawned process after it terminates. After starting the background process I can get the pid from $! which I can store in an associative array but how do I... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I like to check the status of sendmail and take the appropriate action based on success / failure etc.
I have gone through one of the thread where a suggestion is made to use RC for return code
Following is the code:
==================================
#!/usr/bin/bash
export... (0 Replies)
Can I use -ctime/-mtime to verify if a particular directory has been updated or not?
I don't care about number of days. I just want to perform some operations only if the folder is modified (or it's metadata is modified), i.e. some files are added to the directory.
This thread has a more... (1 Reply)
I am relatively new to scripting. I am trying to develop a script that will
1. Source an executable file as an argument to the script that sets up the environment
2. Run a command "stat" that gives the status of 5 Engines running on the system
3. Check the status of the 5 Engines as either... (0 Replies)
Greetings...
I have to construct shell script to check the SFTP status,
Define a global variable (say sftpStatus). Set it to default value "success" when you define it first time outside the script.
check the current SFTP status (say currentStatus - local variable within the script)
if... (16 Replies)
May i please know
1) How to check if FIFO process is down?
2) How to bring FIFO up and running?
we are using redhat Linux OS and bash shell
Thank you. (1 Reply)
Hi,I have a stored procedure to verify no of months since current fiscal.I want a shell script to exit with returtn code when the verification fails,I have shell script below but this doesnt work
sqlplus / << EOF
WHENEVER SQLERROR exit 1
WHENEVER OSERROR exit 2
DECLARE
v_time_period... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
msgchk
msgchk(1mh)msgchk(1mh)Name
msgchk - check for messages
Syntax
msgchk [ -help ] [ -nodate ] [ -notify all|mail|nomail ] [ users ... ]
Description
The program checks all known mail drops for mail that is waiting for you. It displays whether you have mail waiting to be read or not and
shows the date that you last read your mail.
You can check other user's maildrops by specifying their user names as the users argument on the command line.
Options-help Prints a list of the valid options for this command.
-date
-nodate Prints the date when you last read your mail. This is the default behavior of The -nodate option can be used of you do not want
to print this date.
-notify
-nonotify Indicates under what circumstances should produce a message. There are three legal values: all, mail, and nomail. The default
is -notify all, which reports the status of the maildrop regardless of whether it has mail in it or not. The -notify mail option
reports the status of the maildrop only if there is mail waiting. The -notify nomail option reports the status of the maildrop
only if there is no mail in it.
-source file
Specifies the source which are checked for mail. The only value allowed is file, which is the user's maildrop. Additional val-
ues are supported only for use with other mail systems.
Restrictions
does not understand the $MAILDROP environmental variable. If mail is fetched from a location other than will not be able to determine if
new mail has arrived. However, can still be used to fetch mail when it arrives.
For this version, the -source option only supports the value file. Additional values are supported for use only with other mail systems.
Examples
This example shows a user Smith checking his own maildrop:
% msgchk
Smith:
New file source mail waiting ; last read on Tue, 07 Jun 88 17
:21:49 WET
The next example shows a user checking the maildrops of two other local users on the same system, Rabb and Jones:
% msgchk Rabb Jones
Rabb:
No file-source mail waiting ; last read on Tue, 07 Jun 13:22:
25 WET
Jones:
New file source mail waiting ; last read on Tue, 07 Jun 17:30
:05 WET
Files
The user profile.
The system customization file.
The user's maildrop.
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