bionic (8) bootmail.8.gz

NAME

       bootmail - email a list of address a signed message of logs when this system (re)boots

DESCRIPTION

       bootmail is a program called at reboot by cron(8), perhaps useful for unattended, remote servers.

       It  will  read  a  list of one or more comma-separated email addresses from /etc/bootmail/recipients, and
       then loop over a list of white-space separated files in /etc/bootmail/logs, and construct an email.

       By default, the email will at least consist of the hostname of the system, the time and date of the boot,
       as well as the contents of /var/log/boot.log and /etc/motd.

       bootmail  will also cryptographically sign the email message using rootsign(1) and gpg(1).  To verify the
       signature, you will need to gpg --import the public key stored in /etc/rootsign.pub.

       bootmail can optionally encrypt the email  messages  as  well,  by  listing  a  comma-separated  list  of
       recipient gpg(1) key id's in the configuration file I/etc/bootmail/gpgkeys.

FILES

       I/etc/bootmail/gpg.conf, /etc/bootmail/logs, /etc/bootmail/recipients, I/etc/bootmail/gpgkeys

SEE ALSO

       cron(8), gpg(1), mail(1), rootsign(8)

       http://launchpad.net/bootmail

AUTHOR

       This  manpage  and  the  utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems
       (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this  document  and
       the  utility  under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software
       Foundation.

       The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be  found  in  /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL  on
       Debian/Ubuntu systems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.