Automated Sentry Testing Notification System
If you are on probation and your agency uses [http://www.mycallin.com] to allow you to check if you are required to take a drug test, then this program will make your life much easier.
If not... This program will be entirely useless.
I'm lazy and didn't actually build this will libcurl because ... I'm lazy. So you will need to have curl installed on your system.
If you want to receive email notifications, you will need to have mail installed and properly configured to send emails.
Install the repo and run the following:
chmod +x build.sh
./build.shIf you see this output then you are all set!
nigel@mc-east:~/mycallin$ ./build.sh
sentry successfully compiled!
Be sure to properly configure your mail SMTP server!
Otherwise you will need to install the dependencies.
The first time you run the program you need to create your config file.
If you plan to add a job to your crontab to run this daily (reccomended) then you will either need to make the job cd to the same dir as the program before running it or manually set the config path in the command.
First take a look at ./sentry --help to get a little familiar.
Run this command to generate a new config in the default path:
./sentry --no-config --save --add-user email@domain.tld 1234567890 last_name 1234567
1234567890 is the agency phone number.
1234567 is your ID number.
To define a custom path for the config, add this before the email: --config "~/path/to/config"
Now if you cat users.conf you should see your new configuration file.
All of the options within [settings] are global settings, each user can redefine these options to their own liking and it will only affect that user.
Other options that are only allowed within user settings are:
nickname: Use this name instead of last_name when notifying.
prefix: Prepend name with this when notifying.
To add a cronjob to run this every day at 5:01am use crontab -e to edit your crontab (sudo may be necessary on some builds)
Add this line to the bottom:
1 5 * * * cd /path/to/install && ./sentryOr
1 5 * * * /path/to/sentry --config "/path/to/conf"Follow the same format for adding new users or changing settings.