On Jan 20, 2011, at 2:02 PM, stephen goldman wrote: > > Hello All, > I'm looking for a better way to work tape jobs. Seek input from others.. > > The goal is to put the job in the background and receive an email when the > job is complete.
I think that you're on the right track but you don't put the tar in the background. If you do that then you will need a second process watching for the first to complete. What you really want to do is put a little shell script around the tar job, have it do the mailing, and background that. Something like: #!/bin/sh tar -cvf /dev/nst0 files > /tmp/tar.log mail -s "Backup for `date`" sgold...@mit.edu < /tmp/tar.log --Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
