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# 1  
Old 03-13-2008
UNIX email
Is there a way UNIX can send an email to users when there is a problem in the system or a defunct process that needs to be killed?
# 2  
Old 03-13-2008
yes.

you start with a script that monitors stuff of intrest then you have a line of code that sends the email (man mailx)

then you call the script often using cron.

so you may have code like this.....


Code:
#!/bin/sh
DHCP=`ps -ef | grep dhcpd | grep -v grep | wc -l`
if [ $DHCP -gt 0 ] ; then
   echo OK
else
  echo "DHCP not running!!"  mailx -s "Server problem" bob@bob.com
fi


then in cron you have this called every half hour.
# 3  
Old 03-13-2008
the other option is to use a proper monitoring tool such as nagios.
# 4  
Old 03-13-2008
UNIX email
Thank you. I will try this.
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