Re: [PLUG] Auto-send Email

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:25:36 -0500
> From: Eugene Smiley <eug+plug@esmiley.net>
>
> Ok, so my brain isn't really working too well today.

I know that feeling. :-)


> I need a solution to auto-send a text file (if it exists) as an email at a 
> specific time. If more than one file exists. I only want the oldest one sent.
>
> I know I can use cron and mailx, since this is what I do for pflogsumm.pl. I 
> guess I could write a couple of quick Perl lines to figure out the conditionals.
>
> Anyone know of anything that already exists that does this before I go at it?

How about this (untested) shell script in a cron job?

	#!/bin/sh -
	auto_send=`{ ls -t file_to_send* | tail -n1; } 2> /dev/nul`
	[ "$auto_send" ] && cat "$auto_send" \
	  | mailx -s 'Subject' user@example.com


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</shameless plug>


HTH,
JP
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