On 2022-12-25, Ibsen S Ripsbusker <ibs...@ripsbusker.no.eu.org> wrote: > 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?
Seems like it would be a useful change to make. Someone will need to change the script in order to do this, why not give it a go and send a diff if you don't want to carry a local change? -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
