I want to use the altroot facility, but I don't want to read the mails about the the backup succeeding and nothing else failing.
Reading the scripts and the manual pages, I see no support for sending the daily, weekly, or monthly mails only on failure. I also see no support for running ROOTBACKUP outside of the daily script. Of course I could change the scripts, but I would rather not. Also, once I receive the mail, I don't see an easy way to classify it as having a failure or not. What do you do if you want to use the altroot facility (or some other part of the periodic system maintenance scripts) and want to read reports only when something failed? With great humility, Ibsen S. Ripsbusker
