Here's what I've come up with so far and it seems to work well. Even sends
an e-mail to the root user. What I need, and have no good starting point to
begin, is an example of FTP being driven by a shell script. Anyone doing
that?
#! /bin/bash
cd /root
CURDATE=`date -I`
echo 'Curdate = '$CURDATE
cd /FileServer
RESULTS=`tar -czf $CURDATE.proc.dasd.tar /proc/dasd/* 2>&1 | grep tar`
TARERR=`more "$RESULTS" 2>&1 | grep error`
if [ "$TARERR" != "" ]
then
echo 'Error in Tar of tree /proc/dasd' $RESULTS >/root/error/proc.dasd
echo '.' >>/root/error/proc.dasd
`chmod 700 /root/error/proc.dasd`
`sendmail root </root/error/proc.dasd`
echo 'There should be mail'
else
echo 'Tar of /proc/dasd completed without errors
# the whole FTP bit goes here
fi
