Hi all,

I am working on a RedHat server along with several other users. We use the batch utility to set a job queue. Some of the programs that I use write stuff to stdout during the run, with info on who much data has been processed to far and estimated time until completion etc.

batch -q z
at> myScript -i somefile -o someotherfile

By default, the batch util send an email to me (since I configured it using .forward) with the entire output from stdout. Since the scripts writes something to stdout a few times each second, the amount of log-stuff I get from a two-day script can be ˜20 Mbs. Clearly not what I want. I can of course pipe stdout to a file like so

batch -q z
at> myScript -i somefile -o someotherfile > myscript.stdout.log

but then I get a blank e-mail from the util.

So to my question: Is it possible to configure batch so that it sends time the job started and ended, or run time or some oth valuable information to me, instead of a 20 Mb mail or a blank mail?

Note that the scripts that I use are binaries and I cannot customize the code to output less info in the first place (which would be the optimal solution I guess).

Thanks

/Daniel