pycronmail

pycronmail is an app that sends a basic system status mail to registered emails.

Description

• This app consists of two programs pycronmail a bash file and pyssmail.py a python file that collects system status and send it to the receiver email.

pycronmail

• It is a basic CLI program for the app.
• It provides the basic interface for the user.
• It supports linux-debian environment.
• It has commands: install, set_config, add_receiver. start, stop, destroy
• install to the CLI as a command parameter it installs the app in the current user environment.
• set_config sets the sender email credentials.
• add_receiver add receiver email who will receive system status.
• start sets the cronjob
• stop unsets the cronjob
• destroy cleans up the installation | --all option for everything

pyssmail.py

• The purpose of the pyssmail.py program is to collect the system information, status and send it to the user through the use of email.
• This program works if there is a python installed on the environment.

Uses

After you have this repository on your disk, guide your terminal to this directory:

$ cd pycronmail

Install the app through the pycronmail bash script:

pycronmail$ chmod +x pycronmail
pycronmail$ ./pycronmail install 
pycronmail$ # or if you have python, python-psutil already installed
pycronmail$ ./pycronmail install --no-package-change 

After the successful installation the pyssmail.py program will be set in the crontab.

To add receiver:

$ pycronmail add_receiver

To set sender credentials:

$ pycronmail set_config

To stop the cron-job:

$ pycronmail stop

To start the cron-job:

$ pycronmail start

To destroy the installation:

$ pycronmail destroy 
or
$ pycronmail destroy --all

Conclusion

For the test purpose the cronjob will run the pyssmail.py program every minute!