Re: [Integrit-users] scripting the e-mail

[Ed L C. <ec...@ug...>]

Scott Anderson <sco...@ma...> writes:

> I am still having problems with my script for integrit. I am trying to
> pipe the output from integrit into a text file. Then if the exit code
> for grep is 1 i want grep to send me an email that tells me whats
> up...heres how i am trying to do it...
>
> /usr/local/sbin/integrit -C $config -c | /root/integrit1.txt

This is really a shell scripting question.  There's a usenet newsgroup
specifically dedicated to this kind of thing: comp.unix.shell

Right off the bat, though, it looks like you are trying to pipe the
output of integrit to a text file.  Pipes, though, are for connecting
processes.  Since the text file isn't a process, you can't use a
pipe.  You can simply redirect the output into the text file, though.  

With a bourne-shell flavor of shell (like bash, for instance), you
could change the above line to this:

  /usr/local/sbin/integrit -C $config -c > /root/integrit1.txt 2>&1

> if [ $? = "1" ]; then
> 	(printf "To: $recipient\nSubject: Integrit found a change\n\n");
> 	/bin/grep changed integrit1.txt | /usr/lib/sendmail -t ||
> 	exit 1

elif test $? != "0"; then
   # send mail about the error

> fi

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