On 09-Oct-2003/13:32 -0700, Dali Islam <ibmdali@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>the sendmail was corrupted after reloading the daemon
>it was fixed.
>
>Anyway, anyone knows how to send/relay a message only
>on the root login session when a service/daemon is
>down. Like in this case my sendmail was down. or is
>there a way that when root login, then it will see the
>message.
If root logs in at a console, add this to /root/.bash_login:
service sendmail status
That will tell you the status every time root logs in. If you only want to
know if sendmail is not running, then use this:
if ! service sendmail status > /dev/null; then
echo sendmail is not running
fi
You can deliver an email message to the local root account using procmail
(this is untested):
# Build the message in a temp file
tmpfile=/tmp/$0.$$
echo 'From: root@localhost' > $tmpfile
echo 'To: root@localhost' >> $tmpfile
echo -n 'Date: ' >> $tmpfile
date --rfc-822 >> $tmpfile
echo 'Subject: sendmail not running' >> $tmpfile
echo '' >> $tmpfile
service sendmail status >> $tmpfile
# Deliver the message and delete the temp file.
cat $tmpfile | procmail -d root
rm $tmpfile
Tony
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