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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to create a script that will email once there is an error? Post 302584444 by frappa on Friday 23rd of December 2011 08:58:38 AM
Old 12-23-2011
Hi,

if I understood your post, the monitoring script logs an error message if an error condition is met.
why don't you make the monitoring script to also return an exit code other than 0 when the error condition occurs, so that the first script (that is, the script that calls the monitoring script) can just check the exit code of the second script and decide if sending an alert email is necessary or not? This way, the first script doesn't have to check for error entries in the log file.

see ya
fra
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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