Re: {bb} Put returned messages on two lines

[M Tice <mtice@cmcflex.com>]

On Apr 4, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Philip Clark wrote:

> 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.

That did it, thanks Phil.

Matt
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