Re: wall logging or run command each post?

[Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski@gmail.com>]

no good way to implement post upgrade scripts at least not in fedora.
I'll post a thing on the fedoraforum and ask the developers but I
can't get its /etc/yum/post-action/my_action working after reading the
docs and all. Complicated as hell I hate having to create crontabs to
make sure things are correct.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So my best bet is going to be to put
>>
>> alias wall=/script/wall.sh
>>
>> in my /etc/bash.bashrc
>> and any other allowed shell rc's
>> where my /script/wall.sh does the things I want.
>> and change any scripts like my /etc/apcupsd/apccontrol
>> and change its WALL=wall to WALL=/script/wall.sh
>> as well.
>>
>> I'll just have to go searching through /etc/ for files containing wall
>>
>> This will get most things I care about but it might skip messages that
>> some users may broadcast
>> should adding the "#!/bin/bash" as the first line to shell scripts
>> cause the script to use the alias?
>>
> This doesn't work so I'm stuck with having to find all scripts and
> manually change them
> and having to warn users about wall not having this capability
>
> My current wall script looks like so
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # filename: /home/scripts/wall.sh
> # purpose: to email myself wall messages and to log them
> input="$@"
> if [ "${input}" = "" ];then
>  input=$(cat)
> fi
> logger -s "from ${BASH_SOURCE[0]} : $@" >/dev/null 2>&1
> echo -e "${input}" | mutt -s "wall messages from $(hostname) at
> $(date)" jeff.sadowski@gmail.com
> echo -e "${input}" | /bin/wall
>
>
> I'll work on getting it to other users's desktops as well but this all
> seems like stuff that should be implemented in wall.
> Another alternative is to wrap it and have a post upgrade script look
> to see if wall is a symlink pointing to my script and if not move it
> to /bin/real.wall and use /bin/real.wall in my scripts. I'm thinking
> that would be the best.
> Now to find the post upgrade scripts for centos, fedora and ubuntu.
>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:53 AM, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:06:25PM -0600, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
>>>> I would like to know if this feature is built into wall or is there a
>>>> good work around?
>>>
>>> wall is usually used by superuser. I guess if you can all "wall" than
>>> you can also call for example logger to write to the system logs. I
>>> don't see reason to merge functionally of these tools together.
>>>
>>>> I would like to configure wall to run a script after anything is posted to wall.
>>>
>>> Why? Maybe there is better way go get your goal.
>>>
>>>> I would also like to log all wall messages. I could easily do that
>>>> with a script.
>>>
>>> yes, script(1) is the right way
>>>
>>>     Karel
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>  Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
>>>  http://karelzak.blogspot.com