Re: [gentoo-dev] patch: emergemail feature in functions.sh

[Karsten Schulz]

Am Dienstag, 19. August 2003 07:37 schrieb Owen Gunden:
> When this feature is turned on (and an mta
> is present), all einfo, ewarn, and eerror messages are emailed to
> root.

I like that idea!

> There is a major flaw with the current implementation.  Namely, you
> get an email for _every_ invocation of einfo, ewarn, or error.

what about collection all einfo/ewarn/eerror output in an ENV variable 
(or in a temporary file) and send them in one mail to root after each 
stage of the emerge process (compile, install, ...)?

You will get this functionality, when your 'emergemail' function only 
collects the data (and does not send it at this time) and you enter a 
line 'trap sendallmsg EXIT' at the beginning of functions.sh. This will 
call the 'sendallmsg' function, when the shell, which executes 
'functions.sh', exits (which happens after each stage of the emerge 
process)
The new function 'sendallmsg' has to mail the collected einfos (like 
emergemail does it now).

Example (not tested!):
= snip ===================================================
trap sendallmsg EXIT
....
sendallmsg() {
	if [ -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ]; then
		echo -e "${MYMESSAGES}" | /usr/sbin/sendmail root
		unset MYMESSAGES
	else
		# don't you dare try to use ewarn here :)
		echo -e " ${WARN}*${NORMAL} the emergemail feature was unable to"
		echo -e " ${WARN}*${NORMAL} find /usr/sbin/sendmail.  You must have"
		echo -e " ${WARN}*${NORMAL} a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) such as"
		echo -e " ${WARN}*${NORMAL} postfix, exim, ssmtp, etc. to use this"
		echo -e " ${WARN}*${NORMAL} feature."
	fi
}

emergemail() {
	SEVERITY=$1
	MESSAGE=$2
	if echo ${FEATURES} | grep -iq emergemail; then
		MYMESSAGES="${MYMESSAGES}\n${SEVERITY} ${MESSAGE}"
	fi
}

= snip ===================================================
The EXIT trap is not used by other scripts in /sbin/* and 
/usr/lib/portage/bin/*, so I hope, it is ok to set it in 
/sbin/functions.sh!

have fun!
Karsten


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