Hello list,
this is my first post, so if it has been answered countless times
before - be gentle.
We are a computational chemistry group that uses a remotely located
computer to perform computational chemistry work. We submit these jobs
from our OS X desktops through SSH (and SCP). We never really
physically log in to the remote computer.
Due to an overly restrictive network administrator we can no longer
send files via scp from a remote machine to our OS X desktop.
One solution has been suggested and that is to get the remote machine
to send an email to the user informing the user that the process on the
remote computer has finished and the files he/she needs are available
for download. This works quite well, and we can send in the text of
the email details about the location of the files and names etc.
The user would then scp from the desktop OS X machine to the remote
machine and retrieve the files (manually).
What would be really cute would be for the email message to trigger a
script on the OS X desktops that does this in a more automatic sense.
I understand that procmail may be able to do this.
Can someone please point me to a tutorial or suggest the setup that I
would need to have running on my OS X desktop (which is where the mail
will end up) to allow for this?
At the moment the email subject line is empty (due to using the mail
fred < "file" syntax on the remote machine), but the body of the email
now contains the contents of "file".
Any thoughts or suggestions are most welcome.
Thanks in advance,
tony
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Computational Quantum Chemistry Gp, Office Ph.: 61-2-6125-3573
Research School of Chemistry, Dept. Ph.: 61-2-6125-3637
Australian National University, Fax:
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Canberra, ACT 0200,
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