Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Halt message

[Stephan Wacker]

Hi,

I would rather suggest you put the code into

	/etc/conf.d/local.stop

That script is executed before anything in /etc/init.d is stopped.


If you want to make sure the mail has left your system, you might 
test if the outgoing mail directory is empty. In my case that is

	/var/spool/postfix/active

One way to wait until the directory is empty would be

    while [ `find /var/spool/postfix/active -type f -mmin -1` ]
    do
        sleep 1
    done

Actually, the "-mmin -1" will make it wait at most one minute.

Or you wait at most 3 seconds, like this:

    find /var/spool/postfix/active -type f -mmin -1 && sleep 1
    find /var/spool/postfix/active -type f -mmin -1 && sleep 1
    find /var/spool/postfix/active -type f -mmin -1 && sleep 1


Regards
Stephan


Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2007 09:27 schrieb Xavier Parizet:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2007 08:54:39, "Gentoo Voyager"
> <gentoovoyager@×××××.com>
>
> wrote :
> > Dear all,
> > how to send automatic mail while halting the gentoo system.
> > qmail server running on my gentoo box.
>
> Maybe you can add a rc script to send an email at shutdown.
> For example :
> ===============/etc/init.d/notifyhalt========================
> #!/sbin/runscript
>
> EMAIL="root@××××××.net"
>
> depend () {
> 	need net
> }
>
> start () {
> 	return
> }
>
> stop () {
> 	ebegin "Notifying $EMAIL of rebooting the system"
> 	cat <<EOF  | sendmail $EMAIL
> From: halt.notify@××××××.net
> Subject: System reboot
>
> The system is rebooting !
> EOF
> 	eend $?
> }
> ===================================================
> Add it by rc-update add notifyhalt default
> Hope this can help !
>
> > Thanks,
>
> Regards,
> Xavier Parizet
>
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