Re: {bb} Put returned messages on two lines

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 00:52, M Tice wrote:
> Hello, I have a simple script (that is modified from a brother's RAID  
> reporting script) in which it will look through lastlog and if there  
> are more than 2 people listed it will send a red alert.  So far the  
> script works fine but the output to BBDISP doesn't look fine.
> 
> Here's part of the script:
> 
> # Prepare to send message
> LINE="status $HOST.$TEST $COLOR `date` $MESSAGE $result"
> 
> A little confusing to look at but see how it combines the status/date/ 
> first line of the message into one line?  Any ideas on how to format  
> this?  I'm sorry if this looks sloppy and sorry if this has been  
> posted/replied to in the past, I couldn't find an answer.

Just split the status message over a number of lines. The first
is displayed in larger type so something like:

  LINE="status $HOST.$TEST $COLOR `date` $MESSAGE
  $result"

should give you a more readable result.

Cheers, Phil.



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