Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Feature request: email notifications about the progress

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hi Paul,

Paul Daniels wrote:
>      I've got a mailfeeder tool that I wrote for testing a long time in
> the past, uses standard sockets type stuff in linux in plain C, BSD
> licenced and no external libs required.

Thank you.

I do not plan to implement in ddrescue any mail client code. Using the 
unix toolbox philosophy I was thinking about someting like make ddrescue 
execute

  system( "echo <message> | mailx -s <subject> address@hidden" );

and just provide the means to specify the email address and a pointer to 
the configuration documentation of mailx (or whatever email client 
used). BTW, the mailx command in my machine does not seem able to send 
emails to the outside world.


ST wrote:
> PS: such hooks could be used also for other stuff - like backing up the
> so far rescued image to an sftp-server (just in case)...

Working commands suitable for something like the system call above are 
welcome. ;-)


Robert Trevellyan wrote:
> Maybe all you need is a utility that watches the mapfile for changes and
> runs a script every nth time (i.e. no modifications to ddrescue)?

This would be easier for me :-) but if something like my proposal above 
could be implemented, it would be more flexible and efficient (I think).


Best regards,
Antonio.