Re: Pro*C and mail

A copy of this was sent to "Pål Jakobsen" <paal.jak_at_nl.telia.no> (if that email address didn't require changing) On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:59:52 GMT, you wrote:

>Is it possible to send a mail from within a pro*c application when it
>discover any abnormalities running at night.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>

the question is really "can C send an email".

On unix, its very easy. something as simple as:

  system( "echo 'Bummer, something went wrong' | mail yourname_at_yourhost" );

will do it. fork/exec or popen can let you do more complex stuff as well.

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Opinions are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of Oracle Corporation Received on Tue Jul 27 1999 - 07:20:56 CDT