LogMailer

Requires msmtp installed on a linux machine.

Goal

The goal of this script is to send the log-files of the current day to a specified email address.

Not the log files from /var/log/, but only the ones from my scripts, which I store in /home/myuser/cronjobs/logs/ on my ubuntu cloud server(s).

My log-files are named as follows: name of app, underscore, weekday (3 characters), and followed by .log.
Example: tweeps_SAT.log. The next Saturday the log-file gets overwritten.

msmtp

msmtp is a very simple and easy to use SMTP client with fairly complete sendmail compatibility.

To Do: adde installation and configuration information here.

Code

Configuration

In config-sample.py you will find the constants that the script needs to run on your server:

• the destination email address
• the location (absolute path) of the log directory

DEST_EMAIL = "my.email@example.com"
LOG_DIR = "/home/myuser/cronjobs/logs/"

Script

Cron

I have configured crontab so that the script runs twice a day: at 10 past 11 am and 10 past 11 pm.

10 11,23 * * * python3 /home/j0h4n/cronjobs/logmailer/logmailer.py > /dev/null 2>&1

To Do

Add logging to the script.