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# 8  
Old 10-20-2011
Already posted:

Code:
[ -s /tmp/$$ ] && sendmail username@host < /tmp/$$
rm -f /tmp/$$

Try it.
# 9  
Old 10-20-2011
get this error


./checkforsize.sh[6]: sendmail: not found
# 10  
Old 10-20-2011
You don't have any mail-transport agent(MTA) installed.

As a guess, I'm betting you don't want to set up an entire mail server.

Depending on what your system is, you may be able to install ssmtp, a barebones pretend-MTA which just routes everything directly through an external SMTP email account.
# 11  
Old 10-20-2011
[ -s /tmp/$$ ] |mailx -r username@host -s "empty files" myemailid

i got an email...but it dint list any files

---------- Post updated at 03:34 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:26 PM ----------

got it...

cat /tmp/$$ |mailx -r username@host -s "empty files" myemailid

this worked
# 12  
Old 10-20-2011
That's a useless use of cat.

Code:
mailx -r username@host -s "empty files" myemailid < /tmp/$$

# 13  
Old 10-20-2011
Thankssssss a lot....U r the man Corona688
# 14  
Old 10-20-2011
The [ -s /tmp/$$ ] is to make sure the file's not empty. Otherwise, it will be sent each time.

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