Bug#537971: RFP: shush -- runs a command and optionally reports its output by mail

[Francois Marier <francois@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : shush
  Version         : 1.2.3
  Upstream Author : Christophe Kalt <shush@taranis.org>
* URL             : http://web.taranis.org/shush/
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : runs a command and optionally reports its output by mail

shush was written to be a generic wrapper around cron jobs so that it can be
applied to any command without having to modify it or create a custom wrapper
for it. In a sense, it solves a fairly simple problem, but it also brings some
powerful features making it a useful tool beyond cron jobs.
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- Multiple reports (for the output) may be defined
- Decision to send a report (or not) is configurable based on:
  - Output content analysis (using regular expressions)
  - Command exit code
  - Size of output
  - Command execution duration 
- Support for plain text, enriched text and HTML report formatting. (The latter two allow rendering part of the output in bold.)
- Various timeout actions such as notification and command termination
- Locking support
- Progress report logging via syslog
- Automatic crontab file updating based on shush's configuration