On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:58:14 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 08:33:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >>MAILTO was the main thing that I remember missing in terms of pure >>functionality. > > This is not a complete substitute for all uses of MAILTO, but I found > the following useful so I share it in case you weren't aware of it. > > Define a service specifically designed for sending status emails: > > status-email-user@.service: >> [Service] >> Type=oneshot >> ExecStart=-/usr/local/bin/systemd-email %i >> User=nobody >> Group=systemd-journal
`nobody` is not a particularly good user to use for this. Should you have any non-mappable uids (like user namespaces or some nfs configurations), they will appear owned by `nobody`. You should probably use instead: DynamicUser=yes SupplementaryGroups=systemd-journal -- Saludos
