On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Charlie Schluting wrote:
> Excellent, that's a great idea. I think I may use this too... thanks :)
Well, I wasn't satisfied so I played with it some more. The user
script is "cm". It will take the arguments start, stop and check.
"Start" will start the mail-check utility in the background, "Stop"
will kill the background job, and "Check" will take a look, then quit.
Note that you can do a quick check even while it is already running in
the background. The is handy if you think you might have missed a
notification.
"cm" calls cm.scr to do the actual work.
---
# cm
#!/bin/sh
COMMAND="$1"
if [ "$COMMAND" = "check" ]; then
cm.scr check
exit
fi
if [ "$COMMAND" = "start" ]; then
if [ -f $HOME/.cmpid ]; then
echo "`basename $0` is already running."
exit 1
fi
cm.scr start &
exit
fi
if [ "$COMMAND" = "stop" ]; then
if ! [ -f $HOME/.cmpid ]; then
echo "`basename $0` is not running."
exit 1
fi
kill `cat $HOME/.cmpid`
rm $HOME/.cmpid
exit
fi
echo "Usage: `basename $0` start|stop|check"
exit
---
# cm.scr
#!/bin/sh
COMMAND="$1"
if [ "$COMMAND" = "start" ]; then
echo $$ >$HOME/.cmpid
fi
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
GREP=/bin/grep
TOTAL_COUNT=0
MAILBOXES="[INBOX] Musicians OurPlace [BLUE] [PDXLUG] [SYSTEM]"
while [ 0 = 0 ]; do
cd $MAILDIR
MAILIN=""
for each in /var/mail/$USER $MAILBOXES
do
if [ -f $each ]; then
totalCount=`$GREP "^From " $each | wc -l`
readCount=`$GREP "^Status: RO" $each | wc -l`
unreadCount=`expr $totalCount - $readCount`
if [ $TOTAL_COUNT -eq 0 ]; then
TOTAL_COUNT=`expr $TOTAL_COUNT + $unreadCount`
fi
if ! [ $unreadCount -eq 0 ]; then
if [ "$each" = "/var/mail/$USER" ]; then each="INBOX"; fi
MAILIN="$MAILIN $each"
fi
fi
done
if ! [ "$MAILIN" = "" ]; then
if ! [ "$MAILIN" = "$OLDMAILIN" ]; then
OLDMAILIN=$MAILIN
echo "You have new mail in:$MAILIN"
fi
fi
if [ "$COMMAND" = "check" ]; then
break
fi
sleep 60
done
---
You're right ... I need a life. :-)
Regards,
Paul
--- _
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Linux enthusiast /\\
www.fedora.com _\_v
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