[02:14] <MIF> how can I have my server send a email just before it shuts down?
[02:17] <sarnold> the 'easy' way is to write a little script for you to use to shut it down, that'll send the email, sleep for a bit or loop for a bit to check if the email was actually sent, and *then* shutdown
[02:17] <sarnold> trying to hook the existing tooling might be difficult, since shutting down the email server would be part of the shutdown tasks..
[02:19] <MIF> where would I look to hook into the tooling?
[02:22] <sarnold> MIF: check out systemd.special(7), it describes a *lot* of targets for this; poweroff.target, exit.target, halt.target, shutdown.target, omg too many :)
[02:22] <MIF> ok
[02:22] <MIF> thanks
[02:23] <sarnold> MIF: you'd juggle the various dependency lines in a .service file to either be 'running' your thing the entire lifetime of the machine and then have an ExecStop or similar to send a mail..  or perhaps a service file that's Wanted by one of these targets, I'm not sure which path is more likely to be successful
[02:24] <sarnold> MIF: you'd probably also need to declare reationships to the mail server, Requires= ..
[02:24] <MIF> can't I just edit the stop file for the mailserver?
[02:24] <MIF> can't I just edit the stop file for the mail server?
[02:31] <rbasak> I thought you wanted an email sent just before the server shuts down, rather than an email sent just before the mail server service is stopped :)
[02:31] <MIF> when it is shuting down
[02:31] <MIF> any time
[02:31] <MIF> so if it crashes
[02:31] <MIF> it will let me know
[02:34] <sarnold> probably you want an off-machine monitoring service then
[02:36] <MIF> are there any free ones that you know of?
[02:36] <sarnold> nagios is kind of the ancient king
[02:38] <MIF> I can't afford anything
[02:45] <sarnold> that's fine, there's almost too many free choices :)
[02:45] <sarnold> it'd be easier if there were just a few, but there's *so many* to choose from that it's easy to suffer from analysis paralysis
[02:45] <MIF> lol
[05:56] <lordievader> Good morning
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[08:45] <tobias-urdin> coreycb: is https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/magnum/+/777910 making it's way into UCA packages soon?
[08:45] <tobias-urdin> seeing in jobs https://storage.bhs.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_dcaab5e32b234d56b626f72581e3644c/zuul_opendev_logs_df0/778749/7/check/puppet-openstack-integration-6-scenario003-tempest-ubuntu-focal/df09858/logs/puppet.txt
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[12:27] <coreycb> tobias-urdin: I don't think so, icey do you know? ^
[12:28] <icey> coreycb: tobias-urdin: not that I know of
[12:29] <coreycb> if not we can get it going, I assume it upgrades ok
[13:15] <raub> Embarassingly trivial question of the day: can I select a network interface in preseed given its MAC address?
[13:29] <tobias-urdin> weird that you haven't hit that yet since it's required for mysql 8
[18:04] <tomreyn> raub: preseed is dead
[18:04] <tomreyn> or ultra legacy at least
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