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Subject: unattended-upgrades: please include hostname in emails
Package: unattended-upgrades
Version: 0.25.1debian1-0.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Please include the hostname in the email messages that are sent out. When
using this on multiple machines currently you have to look at the received
headers to find out on which host the upgrade ran.
The attached patch adds the hostname to the subject.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages unattended-upgrades depends on:
ii apt 0.7.14+b1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii apt-utils 0.7.14+b1 APT utility programs
ii python 2.5.2-2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-apt 0.7.7.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg
- --
- -- arthur - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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diff -Nauwir unattended-upgrades-0.25.1debian1.orig/unattended-upgrade unattended-upgrades-0.25.1debian1/unattended-upgrade
--- unattended-upgrades-0.25.1debian1.orig/unattended-upgrade 2007-04-24 23:32:11.000000000 +0200
+++ unattended-upgrades-0.25.1debian1/unattended-upgrade 2008-10-13 11:03:22.000000000 +0200
@@ -256,9 +256,11 @@
# check if we need to send a mail
email = apt_pkg.Config.Find("Unattended-Upgrade::Mail", "")
if email != "":
+ import socket
logging.debug("Sending mail with '%s' to '%s'" % (logfile_dpkg, email))
- mail = subprocess.Popen(["mail",
- "-s","unattended-upgrades result",email],
+ mail = subprocess.Popen(["mail", "-s",
+ "unattended-upgrades results for %s" % socket.gethostname(),
+ email],
stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
s = "Unattended upgrade returned: %s\n\n" % (res != pm.ResultFailed)
s += open(logfile_dpkg).read()
