Re: [cobalt-users] Sending email to site admins only?

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:

> There's been a lot of talk about sending mail to *all* users on the 
> server; this is not what I want to do.
> I need to know how the machine determines who the site administrator 
> is for a domain.
> What I'm wanting to do is have the server go through the logs once a 
> day and email all of the error lines for that domain to the domain's 
> site administrator. I've got some site admins who don't bother to 
> look at their copy of the logs, and I'm getting pretty fed up with 
> having constant entries being logged because an image can't be found. 
> It's really filling up the logs before they get chopped up each 
> night. I want to make the site admins aware of this noise they're 
> throwing into the logs so they can fix it. This would be a cron job, 
> of course.
> 
> I do have a PHP script written up that greps the error log for a 
> certain domain and returns it to a browser, but sending email to the 
> site admin is more of an 'in your face' solution that they can't 
> ignore (or just neglect to check).
> 
> Any ideas?
> --
> CarrieB
> 

Take the userlist of the site. I hope you know how to do that.
Take the list, and for each item, check if it's in the group site-adm.
If it's not, erase it from the list.
You'll be left with the site admins for that specific site.

I stand to be corrected... :-)

- shimi.