Hi, can someone help me with this script I am trying to develop a simple script that will email us via postfix when our mail queue
reaches above 200. Here is what I have so far. My problem is how to get the value from mailq | grep " Kbytes " | awk '{print $5}' into the if statement. Am I anywhere even close to obtaining my result. Any insight would be great. Thanks.




Script to check a value then perform an email if higher than a certain value.


#!/bin/bash
#Script for checking the mailq and emailing administrator if queue is above 200
#Date: 01/24/07

mailq | grep " Kbytes " | awk '{print $5}'

if [ -gt 200]
then
mail -x administrator


#END

In it's most crude form something like
could work but this doesn't have any errorchecking so if the result is unexpected all hell breaks loose. Then again the idea of *emailing alerts* when the mail queue is full, well... ;-p

Thanks this is a great quick and dirty method of doing it.

I love it

Thanks