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Bash script to monitor and email when a application stops

January 5, 2012

Usage: monitor.sh PID MESSAGE EMAIL_ADDRESS

#!/bin/bash

while [ -e /proc/$1 ]
do
  sleep 1
done
mail -s "$2" $3 < /dev/null

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