If you don't have root, you are probably going to be restricted from other methods by the security policy of a shared host. In that case, just use fetchmail or other means of checking mail for your 'trigger' message, then run your process where you DO have permission. Ken
Wojciech Puchar <woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: >> Old school - in /etc/aliases you can set: >> user "|/home/user/script" >> And read the mail from stdin. >> Ken > >works great but requires root to do this > >> >> >> Voytek Eymont <voy...@sbt.net.au> wrote: >> >>> anyone has any tips what's best way to execute a script via email ? >>> >>> I have a wget script that fetches some pages, and, emails me the >>> output, >>> there is no paramters passed, it's all in the script >>> I'll like to email in and action the script to get the results email >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Voytek >> >> Pacific.net >> Pacific.net
