shush

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shush runs a command and optionally reports its output by mail. It is a useful wrapper around cron jobs.

For more details, check out the shush(1) manual page.

shush was written to be a generic wrapper around cron jobs so that it can be applied to any command without having to modify it or create a custom wrapper for it. In a sense, it solves a fairly simple problem, but it also brings some powerful features making it a useful tool beyond cron jobs.

• Multiple reports (for the output) may be defined
• Decision to send a report (or not) is configurable based on:
  • Output content analysis (using regular expressions)
  • Command exit code
  • Size of output
  • Command execution duration
• Support for plain text, enriched text and HTML report formatting. (The latter two allow rendering part of the output in bold.)
• Various timeout actions such as notification and command termination
• Locking support
• Progress report logging via syslog
• Automatic crontab file updating based on shush's configuration

• version 1.2.3 [2009-07-19]

  Release focus: Bug fixes
  
  Major enhancement over 1.1.x releases: Enhanced reporting

• version 1.1.2 [2008-04-01] - [Solaris 10 x86 Package] - [Solaris 10 SPARC Package]

  Release focus: Bug fixes
  
  Major enhancements over 1.0.x releases:

  • Ability to use the same configuration for multiple similar purposes
  • More flexible mail subjects

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