I am trying to create a script to see if amavis is alive and upon failure send email to someuser@domain.com This is what I have so far. cat amavis.check grep Connection /var/log/mail.log |grep refused if success then cat /amavis.not.alive | mail [email]user@somedomain.com[/email] The thought is that when amavis is failing there are messages like the one below in mail.log "Jul 20 11:59:09 mail postfix/qmgr[5764]: 25AE16F8DF: to=, relay=none, delay=7586, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: Connection refused) Jim --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss