search for file, if not there email to mult people

[njdnjd]

Hello Fellow Scripters,
I am a novice at this so any help is greatly appreciated. I need to create a shell script that will check a directory for a file (call it Archive) and if it is NOT there with todays date send an email to 3 people with a message Ex. "Someone is sleeping on the job". I will set a crontab to check this daily which I can do. It's just the find and IF NOT there Send part.
Thanks for any help.

njdnjd

 

[ProbablyDown]

# Check to see if we got any myfiles*.txt files...

if [ `grep -c "myfiles" $DIRLIST` -eq 0 ]; then
mail -s &quot;no myfiles.txt files&quot; $SYSADMIN << END

Is that what you want?

 

[lancer73]

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#!/bin/ksh

FILE=(full-path-to-your-file)
DATE=`date '+%b %d'`
ls $FILE | grep &quot;$DATE&quot; || mailx -s&quot;someone is sleeping on the job&quot; &quot;(all mail recipients separated by spaces)&quot;<(some file with the message you want to mail in it)

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anything in () is what you need to customize. there's probably a better way, but this should work fine for you.

 

[DSMARWAY]

Hi,

Firstly . do you want to mail users on there external address i.e. fred@gungoo.com (externally to PC's)
or will it be locally which have several user id's ?

If externally , do you have a mail server which will forward the mails . If so this needs to be set up first
and tested , the rest will be fairly simple .

E.g. the following will send mail to external users ,via
an mail server which is an NT server ,

If you search this forum for mail users or something similar you'll see loads of threads about setting up sendmail to mail users .

MSG=&quot;someone is sleeping on the job&quot;
if [[ !-f /dir/archive ]];
then
cat << EOD | /usr/sbin/sendmail maillist
From: root@$(hostname).yourdomain
Subject: Wake up on $(hostname)
${MSG}
EOD
fi


maillist is an alias set in sendmail which is a group containing the email addresses of the users.

HTH

 

Thanks I will try them and get back to you.