Linux Scripting

atlight · 10-28-2003, 04:01 PM

Sorry but I am new to linux and I hope someone can help me. I am running an ftp server on redhat(7.3). What I need to do is create some sort of script that will look every so often (every hour would do) then email me when that file is there so that I can pull that file down do what I need to with it.

Is this possible or am I nuts?

trickykid · 10-28-2003, 04:04 PM

Sure its possible.. create a script that searches or finds a file in the location, if its there it will mail you and you can setup a script like this to using cron.

Good place to start learning any shell scripting or bash scripting would be the Advanced BASH Scripting howto here: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

david_ross · 10-28-2003, 04:10 PM

Welcome to LQ.

A script like this should do:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -f /path/to/file ]; then
echo Your file is there | mail atlight -s "Your file exists"
fi

Make your script executeable:
chmod 700 /path/to/script

Then just add a cron entry to run it every so often eg an hour:
0 * * * * /path/to/script

atlight · 10-29-2003, 08:11 AM

Great I will try these suggestions.Thank you all for your replies. This forum is awesome.