Gentoo Trick: Send SMS alerts when emerge completes
My most recent large update (>500 packages) prompted this idea. Around the tenth time an ebuild failed mere moments after I left the room (not to return for hours), I decided to have the darn thing alert me when it wanted attention.
The following assumes you have installed:
- The mailx client (mail-client/mailx), to send mail from shell scripts and the command line.
- An MTA (mail transfer agent) for mailx to use, such as Postfix, Sendmail or ssmtp.
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