Re: options to notify login error

On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:43:15 +0200
INGeSI di Alessandro Barisone <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 27/08/20 11:40, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 
> > I run getmail from a cron job which executes every 10 minutes to fetch
> > mail from a single source, split the incoming mail into two streams: one
> > is delivered locally while the other is passed to Postfix for delivery.
> > 
> > If getmail is unable to contact to the source, the cron script returns
> > an error and crond reports this error to root via an email. This is
> > default error handling for crond. I have my email system configured to
> > redirect all mail for root to myself.
> > 
> > So, since I assume that you'll also be using crond to periodically
> > execute getmail, all you need to do is to configure the cron script to
> > make crond send any getmail failure messages directly to yourself.
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> 
> Thank you for your hint, it was useful and works fine.
> 
> I'd like to add a suggestion: to have a better management of mail 
> notifications from cron I found this on google:
> 
> https://habilis.net/cronic/
> 
> So I'll receive a more detailed email only in case of errors

That looks neat - thanks! I'll have to look into using it (or one of the
alternatives mentioned there) for my cron jobs.

Celejar