[Spacewalk-list] Any way to lessen WEB TRACEBACK Messages

[Cliff]

Mike McCune wrote:
> On 09/01/2009 12:07 PM, Mike Hanby wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I had a situation this weekend where the OracleXE recovery ran out of 
>> space (had it set to 10G).
>>
>> The spacewalk server reacted by spamming me with TRACEBACK emails 
>> literally multiple emails a second. Luckily I glanced at my phone and 
>> noticed that my inbox had over 2000 new messages and I was able to log 
>> in and 'rhn-satellite stop' to stop the flood before my mail server 
>> admin locked my inbox.
>>
>> Is there any way to limit the amount of email that the SW server will 
>> send? Obviously there's a problem, but thousands of emails in a very 
>> short period of time introduces its own set of problems.  A single 
>> email indicating a problem connecting to Oracle would be sufficient :-)
>>
>> If it isn't possible currently, is this worthy of a bugzilla request?
> 
> Can always send all the traceback email to nobody at localhost and setting 
> nobody to go to /dev/null by configuring:
> 
> traceback_mail = rhn-traffic at redhat.com
> 
> in /etc/rhn/rhn.conf to
> 
> traceback_mail = nobody at localhost
> 
> and mucking with your /etc/aliases file.
> 
> Once you change the email address and restart all the Spacewalk services 
> it should be black-holed.
> 
> As far as configurable settings beyond where the mail goes to .. that 
> would need to be a bugzilla/feature request :)
> 
> Mike

I also like the idea of sending traceback emails to an internal mailing 
list system and you subscribe to digest versions. Let say mailman 
throttle the email flood and still get them. Also allows multiple people 
subscribe to get the emails.

Cliff