On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:40:29AM +0100, Andrew Ferrier wrote: > The exim4 specification recommends creating a cronjob to check that > paniclog is empty: (see third bullet point from the top) > > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.40/doc/html/spec_45.html > > It would useful to have one of these shipped by Debian's exim4 by > default, probably installed into /etc/cron.d. Presumably it would email > root if the file wasn't empty.
Reporting e-mail failures via e-mail is sometimes a recursive failure. I am not sure whether this would help. I would be willing to accept a patch to the daily cron job which would yell into syslog, try to send an e-mail (by directly calling /usr/lib/sendmail and reporting a non-zero exit code to syslog and probably somewhere else). A hook would be nice at this place as well, allowing the local admin to have his local reporting method (like a nagios passive service check or writing a warning to /etc/motd) hooked in. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
