Shell: Sending an email after nohup command exits

vxc69 · 05-14-2013, 10:37 AM

Hi guys,

Just curious if this is possible. Say I put a long running process under nohup, background it then disown and logout.

Is it possible to have the system send a mail when the process exits (failed or not)?

If I can figure that out I can tail the nohup output and send myself a mail, stops me from having to login and check every now and then to see what is going on.

Thanks,
vxc

schneidz · 05-14-2013, 10:44 AM

Code:

nohup run-some-long-command.ksh; tail nohup.out | mail schneidz@hyper -s "run-some-long-command.ksh finished"

edit: i just thought of something... the tail and mail commands mite not execute if you are no longer logged in ?
maybe create a small script and ran it using nohup:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
run-some-long-command.ksh > vxc69.log
tail vxc69.log | mail schneidz@hyper -s "run-some-long-command.ksh finished"

vxc69 · 05-14-2013, 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schneidz

Code:

nohup run-some-long-command.ksh; tail nohup.out | mail schneidz@hyper -s "run-some-long-command.ksh finished"

edit: i just thought of something... the tail and mail commands mite not execute if you are no longer logged in ?
maybe create a small script and ran it using nohup:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
run-some-long-command.ksh > vxc69.log
tail vxc69.log | mail schneidz@hyper -s "run-some-long-command.ksh finished"

This should work, dunno why I didn't think of it!

Now to convince ppl at work to install sendmail - or else I can create a REST backend on a different server that does the mailing for me - ah that'll work just fine.

Thanks schneidz