Que Length Check

[Patterson, S R]

Take out the "LSLEN" line now and put a \ in front of the * in the
find line.  What's happening is the * in the find line is being
expanded out to every file in the directory, overrunning your command
line.  That's why the find was there instead of the ls to start with.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Evans [mailto:sevans at FOUNDATION.SDSU.EDU]
> Sent: 29 January 2002 22:35
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Que Length Check
>
>
> I wrote a script that looks like the following according to
> Julian's instructions.  When I run it tells me there are to
> many arguments.  Any ideas?
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> #Define this to be your maximum allowed mail queue length
> MAXLEN=20
>
> LSLEN='cd /var/spool/mqueue.in && ls | wc -l'
> QUEUELEN='find /var/spool/mqueue.in -name q* | wc -l'
>
> if [ $QUEUELEN -gt $MAXLEN ]; then
> touch /var/spool/mqueue.in-file
> fi
>