while ; do ; done before the email echo will limit to one email. example notification email sent on rsync completion from commandlinefu $(while [ ! -z "$(pgrep rsync)" ]; do echo; done; echo "rsync done" | mailx user@xxxxxxxxxxx) > /dev/null & --- On Fri, 5/28/10, Ken Allen > wrote: From: Ken Allen Subject: [ncolug] Re: Remote network monitoring To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, May 28, 2010, 8:10 AM Ok, I like this idea, but is there a way to take this one step further? Can some type of flag be set so that we don't get tons of emails every minute until we clear the flag? Ken On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:51 AM, nor thern wrote: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/gnokii-smsd http://wiki.gnokii.org/index.php/User's_Guide echo "This is a test message" | gnokii --sendsms +12345678 http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3345/send-a-signed-and-encrypted-email-from-the-command-line echo "SECRET MESSAGE" | gpg -e --armor -s | sendmail USER@xxxxxxxxxx cron job . netstat every 60 seconds; cut field and grep for network down message to be sent to gnokii and sendmail using tee. --- On Tue, 5/18/10, Ken Allen wrote: From: Ken Allen Subject: [ncolug] Remote network monitoring To: "ncolug" <ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 8:45 PM My dad and I have a wireless network that recently had a major issue and the network was completely down. I am looking for an open source program that can run in linux or windows to check the status of the network and if it is down, then send email and sms alerts. Does anyone know of a program that can do this for us? Thanks, Ken