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MAILBOOT
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INTRODUCTION
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Once upon a time, a computer reboot. Again. And again. And again.
Whereas a lot of computers reboot and we don't care, few should not reboot
without notifying someone.
**MAILBOOT** is a small program (and systemd service unit) used to send an email
when a computer boot (or reboot), providing useful informations and setupable
in less than 1min.
Why do not use cron?
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I started with a cron line. But after workarounded the basic missing feature of
customizing the mail subject in my cron daemon (fcron) in using mail command,
I was borred by being able to send interesting information in one sh line.
So I decided to find another solution. Here we are.
What you cannot do with mailboot?
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The coffee.
HOW TO USE IT
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To print the mail::
$ mailboot -p
To send the mail::
$ mailboot -s
To send the mail at reboot::
$ systemctl enable mailboot.service
.. caution::
**A working mail forwarder is expected on your system.
The sendmail command must be functionnal!**
DEPENDENCIES
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- Bash [#]_
- Systemd [#]_
Using Archlinux packages
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An Archlinux package is provided with the source tree and you can create your
package with the following commands:
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ makepkg
$ pacman -U mailboot-*-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
You can download **MAILBOOT** release tarballs on my ftp: [#]_.
**MAILBOOT** was started by Sébastien Luttringer in July 2013.
LINKS
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.. [#] http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
.. [#] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/
.. [#] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit
.. [#] http://www.gnu.org/software/sed
.. [#] http://ftp.seblu.net/softs/mailboot/
.. [#] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mailboot/
.. [#] https://github.com/seblu/mailboot/