NethServer Version: 7.9.2009
Hello Forum,
Looking for some help/direction on how I can setup a daily email from my Nethserver. I’m thinking of a corn job to do what I need. Anyone done this before and if so can you provide me some instructions on how I can set this up?
Thank you.
Hi @greavette
As you’re talking about NS7, @stephdl made a nice module here:
https://wiki.nethserver.org/doku.php?id=crontab
This gives you a nice GUI to set the times and jobs (tasks) you want to set.
This can be a simple command (example: cp path_to_file path_to_target.), or a script.
For scripts, I’ld suggest using a static folder (eg: /etc/scripts, I use /etc/Jobs for legacy reasons…)
Here a real life screenshot:
As you can see from the screenshot, I use this to run additional backup jobs, trigger a backup to be sent offsite, or grab the configuration of my OPNsense firewalls and store these somewhere…
A few “Gotchas”:
[root@wpd-nethserver Jobs]# ls -la
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 243 Oct 17 2022 .
drwxr-xr-x. 179 root root 12288 Apr 5 01:08 ..
-rwsr-x--- 1 root root 3638 Oct 2 2022 backup-2-syno.sh
-rwsr-x--- 1 root root 4474 Oct 23 2021 backup-drtax.sh
-rwsr-x--- 1 root root 4693 Nov 28 2018 backup-home.sh
-rwsr-x--- 1 root root 4513 Dec 26 2018 backup-home-winsql.sh
-rwsr-x--- 1 1024 users 3929 Oct 17 2022 backup-nas.sh
-rwsr-x--- 1 root root 4476 Oct 23 2021 backup-winsql.sh
-rwxrwx--- 1 root root 973 Apr 2 2021 opnsense-config-buero.sh
-rwxrwx--- 1 root root 980 Apr 2 2021 opnsense-config-rnho.sh
-rwxrwx--- 1 root root 979 Apr 2 2021 opnsense-config-wdho.sh`Preformatted text`
I hope these instructions point you in the right direction, and are understandable as such…
If you need pointers to the actual script, drop me a PM…
My 2 cents
Andy
PS:
To get the full path of a binary, use:
whereis BINARY
example
whereis poweroff
(In /usr/share/man are where the UN*X “man” pages are to be found…)
Here is an example of the mail command sending a mail to name@domain.tld
/usr/bin/echo "This is a testmail" | /usr/bin/mail -s "Subject" name@domain.tld
Hello @Andy_Wismer and @mrmarkuz ,
Amazing support and answers here…thanks very much for you input!
Andy, this module by @stephdl is just what I needed! Thank you.
Markus, this instruction you gave to send an email. I’ve tried adding this to module Andy showed me. Doesn’t appear I’m doing something right here. I’d like to have this email sent daily at 6 am daily (7 days a week). I’ve created the following job in Crontab Manager but I’m getting an error that says:
The validation has been failed: This command line is not allowed : [ “\” ]
Secondly, the reason I’m looking to implement this test is because I’ve had some strange issues with email suddenly. We use a group list of people to send an email to daily. This week we started receiving an error in the Email > Queue related to ‘Too many recipients’. An example of the full details of the deferred email is:
host companye-com.mail.protection.outlook.com[52.101.190.1] said: 452 4.5.3 Too many recipients (AS780090) [YT2PEPF000001CF.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM 2024-04-17T14:23:06.475Z 08DC54043411C1B3] (in reply to RCPT TO command)
Thank you!
You need to put all your commands into a file (script), store that somewhere accessible (I use /etc/Jobs, but eg /etc/scripts would be fine.).
Then put the full path to your script there as command. ( eg /etc/scripts/mailingscript.sh ).
The script file needs to be executable for root!
Using advanced options in Cron, you need 5 tokens in the “Time of the job” field.
eg: "0 6 * * * "
That would work!
My 2 cents
Andy
