Re: calling an external program from pl/sql

Both of you - look into the UTL_SMTP package.

"Martin Drautzburg" <drautzburg_at_altavista.net> wrote in message news:87u23wkyuz.fsf_at_altavista.net...
> "R. Wiesner" <rwi_at_exmail.de> writes:
>
> > Is it possible to make an external call of a program from a
> > pl/sql-procedure or function (like the command host in sql*plus)? I'd
> > like to call mailx or sendmail to send an email to the DBA. How could
> > it be done? How can I give parameters to the external program?
>
> I would like to know this myself. But because I dont't and I don't
> know anybode else who knows, let me tell you what we did to solve
> those kind of issues.
>
> You create a separate process that does all the OS related stuff. You
> may call this process an OS-LISTENER. The server talks to this
> listener either via alerts or database pipes or both.
>
> If you are in the lucky situation, to ride a unix or even a Linux
> system (I bet you are), you may consider sending a string that the
> OS-LISTENER will simply pass to a shell.
>
> I/O-redirection will not be as in the real world, i.e. you cannot
> pipe things straight from the serer into the OS-LISTER, but maybe you
> can live without that. Things like (echo "something strange has
> happened, try to avoid" | mailx -s "Oracle alert" dba) should work
> though.
>
Received on Wed Apr 11 2001 - 04:48:44 CDT