Re: email notification when a process ends?

[Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengquan@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:16:23PM +0000, Pedro Insua wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:00:25PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> > Dear debian users,
> > I have got a script that does database query running for hours. Is there
> > any way to send myself an email after the process for the script ends?
> 
>   Hello.
> 
>   You can use 'mail' , in 'bsd-mailx' package.
> 
>   When the process end, you can put..:
> 
>   echo "End" | mail -s "subject text" user

THank you very much, but now the problem is that the process has already
started and how can I detect its end time?

Regards,

-- 
Zhengquan