Hi, Rob. We do motd and a user newsletter.
I really like the cron job and subscribed notification idea. It would interesting to go beyond email, maybe with a subscribable push notification API, something like Pushover. Cheers. On Tue 09/27/16 04:02PM EDT, Rob Taylor wrote: > I wanted to ask how people announce new versions of software that has been > installed on their cluster to their user base. > Web page, email, motd, etc. > > We've done that, but we've also recently had a request from a user to be > notified only when specific software/packages change or when newer versions > are installed. > We're looking to implement that somewhat like a google alert, where the user > can register some keywords to search for, and > a cron job would search our change logs, and email the users what they had > expressed an interest in. > Has anyone done anything similar? > > Thanks. > > rgt > > Whitehead Network/System Administrator > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Gavin W. Burris Senior Project Leader for Research Computing The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Search our documentation: http://research-it.wharton.upenn.edu/about/ Subscribe to the Newsletter: http://whr.tn/ResearchNewsletterSubscribe _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
