NAME

       bootmail - email a list of address a signed message of logs when this system (re)boots

DESCRIPTION

       bootmail is a program called at reboot by cron(8), perhaps useful for unattended, remote servers.

       It  will  read  a  list of one or more comma-separated email addresses from /etc/bootmail/recipients, and
       then loop over a list of white-space separated files in /etc/bootmail/logs, and construct an email.

       By default, the email will at least consist of the hostname of the system, the time and date of the boot,
       as well as the contents of /var/log/boot.log and /etc/motd.

       bootmail will also cryptographically sign the email message using rootsign(1) and gpg(1).  To verify  the
       signature, you will need to gpg --import the public key stored in /etc/rootsign.pub.

       bootmail  can  optionally  encrypt  the  email  messages  as  well,  by listing a comma-separated list of
       recipient gpg(1) key id's in the configuration file I/etc/bootmail/gpgkeys.

FILES

       I/etc/bootmail/gpg.conf, /etc/bootmail/logs, /etc/bootmail/recipients, I/etc/bootmail/gpgkeys

SEE ALSO

       cron(8), gpg(1), mail(1), rootsign(8)

       http://launchpad.net/bootmail

AUTHOR

       This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland  <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  for  Ubuntu  systems
       (but  may  be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document and
       the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the  Free  Software
       Foundation.

       The  complete  text  of  the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on
       Debian/Ubuntu systems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

bootmail                                          12 July 2011                                       bootmail(8)