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Old 12-21-2005
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Dear friends,

I am storing daily some data in a tape disk. and numbering it from 1 2 3 like this.

I want to get alert mail automatically when ever data is greater than or equal to 600.


to my yahoo mail.

i want to put that mail script in crontab so it will check the data daily at a particular time.

if data crossed 600 it should give mail alert to me.

how to write shell script for this.

please help
# 2  
Old 12-22-2005
how to send mail automatically in unix
Dear friends,

I am storing daily some data in a tape disk. and numbering it from 1 2 3 like this.

I want to get alert mail automatically when ever data is greater than or equal to 600.


to my yahoo mail.

i want to put that mail script in crontab so it will check the data daily at a particular time.

if data crossed 600 it should give mail alert to me.

how to write shell script for this.

please help
# 3  
Old 12-22-2005
rajan_ka1,
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# 4  
Old 12-22-2005
do to check, then

if (( $data > 600 ))
then
echo "Data exceeded 600 count, take action\n\nRegards,\nXYZ" | mailx -s "Subject : Data exceeded 600" youremail@yahoo.com
fi
# 5  
Old 12-22-2005
Dear friend,

I have executed your script.

I have given mailx -s "rajan" id@yahoo.com

at command prompt.

but the error mailx not found was coming.


please give me solution.

regards
rajan
# 6  
Old 12-22-2005
verify that mailx command is in your path (in /usr/bin for exemple)
# 7  
Old 12-23-2005
Dear friend,

In my bin directory mail command is there.

mailx command is not there.

please give solution.


regards
rajan
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