User level service

From: Subba Rao <umroute_at_tanucoo.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 18:11:35 +0200

Hi,

I am new to using runit. Long ago I have used djb's daemontools and now
I have switched to runit.

Now I would like to setup a user level service which uses ssmtp to send
out reminders. The script looks as follows:

===============
#!/bin/sh
while :
do
ssmtp myemail_at_yahoo.com <mailto:myemail_at_yahoo.com> <
/home/user1/reminders/reminder1.txt
     echo `date`: "Testing email script..." >> ./log.txt
sleep 5000
done
===============

All this was created as root on my Raspbian. The "log.txt" file has
entries for each interation but there is no email sent out. If I typed
in the ssmtp command in a terminal then the email does go out. What am
I missing here?

I would like to setup this as a user level service. How do I do that?

Any guidance and help appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Subba Rao
Received on Wed Sep 11 2013 - 16:11:35 UTC