Re: Tape job notification | completion with mail command

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:02:02PM -0500, 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. Should I be using nohup at the

RE: Tape job notification | completion with mail command

2011-01-20 Thread Palit, Nilanjan
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of stephen goldman Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 2:02 PM How can I add mail -s tape job complete sgold...@mit.edu Typical job tar -cvf /dev/nst0 101201_80W2Y_236F.tgz tape94a This might work: $ (tar

Re: Tape job notification | completion with mail command

2011-01-20 Thread john saylor
hi On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:02 PM, stephen goldman sgold...@mit.edu wrote:    The goal is to put the job in the background and receive an email when the job is complete. shouldn't you just write a shell script [and run it via cron]? it could take arguments to be able to handle different

Re: Tape job notification | completion with mail command

2011-01-20 Thread Richard Pieri
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

Re: Tape job notification | completion with mail command

2011-01-20 Thread Matt Shields
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.comwrote: 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