Anthony, I did not have a .bash_login for the root user. So, added that and add the line "service sendmail status". When I sshe to box and login as root, it doesn't show me the status. I thought it needed to refresh the environment, so I added ". /etc/profile" on the first line. Noop didn't work! Thanks Dali --- "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- > Anthony E. Greene > <mailto:Anthony%20E.%20Greene%20%3Cagreene@xxxxxxxxx%3E> > OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 > C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D > AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: > <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> > Linux. The choice of a GNU generation > <http://www.linux.org/> > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
