Email when script is executed .. this one ..

[someone_4]

We have a restart script that a 3rd party software vendor has written. Is there a way that I can write a script that will email us when the restart script is ran. With out having to edit their script.

thanks

RIchard

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Richard:

My attempt at doing this would be a wrapper script e.g. Restart.sh which calls the real script (restart.sh):

#!/usr/bin/sh
USERADDRESS="me@somewhere.com"
restart.sh $*
STATUS=$?
echo "restart.sh returned status ${STATUS} | mail ${USERADDRESS}
exit $STATUS

You can obviously use the mail program of your choice (xmain,elm,etc.)
If you like you could actually name both scripts 'restart.sh' but have the wrapper earlier in the PATH and do an absolute path to the 'real' restart.sh with your wrapper.

Regards, Clay

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Richard,
How does this restart script starts? If it is started by you then you can call that script from your script.
If it is starting automatically then you have to find out in which situation it restarts.
If this restart script starts at certain time and change certain files you can check that files and know that script is ran.

Sachin