====== Example Send Mail Script ====== This (status monitoring) script builds the message then uses ''sendmail'' to send it: #!/bin/sh OLD_STAT=`cat /tmp/cciss.c0d0.ok` NEW_STAT=`/usr/local/bin/cciss_vol_status /dev/cciss/c0d0` SUBJ="XENSERVER 01" DATE=`date +%H` mail () { stat=$1 shift ( echo "From: yourmail@domain.org" echo "Reply-to: yourmail@domain.org" echo "To: servicestatus@domain.org" echo "Subject: $SUBJ" echo echo "RAID status:" echo "$stat" echo "" ) | sendmail -F "RAID STATUS" -f yourmail@domain.org $@ } $DATE -eq 8 -o "${OLD_STAT}x" != "${NEW_STAT}x" && \ mail "$NEW_STAT" yourmail@domain.org