Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone,

I am trying to automate one process on Solaris OS.
This is what happens at the moment.

Every night at 19:30 and every hour after that we run a script that checks the status of databases. That script runs and prints if db's are OK at the end it states how many were down.

I am trying to make another script that would run the above script and possibly check the output and maybe alert the admin if more than one database is down.

It the moment i dont how to write scripts but would like to learn and implement this idea. I had a look at the at command and the cron but still not sure how to go about implementing this, assuming this is possible.

Would anyone be able to help me with this or/and point me to some information that would help me implement this please.

Regards,

Andrei

Since this is going to be happening regularly every day, cron is your best option. You can have the following entry in the crontab:

30 19-<whatever time you choose> * * * <name of script to check databases>

Also, why do you need another script to check the output of the first one? Just have the script run a wall command or send mail to the admins if databases are down.

Thanks,

I think I will explore the option where the script sends an e-mail to myself and other operators. Currently the script just echoes the status of databases to the screen. I suppose I could just change that so it emails this output. I had a look at the wall command and it looks like it sends email to everyone logged in. Is there a way to make the script send an e-mail to group of a people and not to everyone?

Thanks for the help

Andrei

mailx is a good mail client. Try that one.