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This question is influenced by the diskclean utility in Windows.

Is there a tool (and a need) to perform the task. I tend to used when imaging a hard disk.

Thank you

On my Windows machines I use Task Scheduler to perform two tasks:

• Inform me when the machine boots
• Inform me if disk space is running low

I managed the first point in ubuntu using crontab.

In windows I manage the second point using Events. I setup task scheduler so that if event 2013 triggers I send an email.

It is possible to achieve the same with Ubuntu server?

Thanks

I am trying to install Ubuntu on an HP Elitebook 850G2.

I boot from USB and the installation appears to go flawlessly.

When the laptop boots after installation it goes into a boot loop.

I tried using both Server 20.04.3 and Desktop 21.10.

Laptop is on the latest HP BIOS. These is not other OS installed on the computer.

What can I do to diagnose and resolve the issue.

I have an HP EliteBook and am trying to enable Wake-on-Lan but I was not able to get it to work. The BIOS doesn't have a WOL setting.

I did some searching and found this link: https://support.hp.com/ro-en/document/c04955641. My laptop is listed here. Is there a similar process I can follow on Ubuntu 20.04?

Thank you

I have successfully setup a system config to send emails using msmtp. Below is the configuration (located in /etc/msmtprc).

account default
auth           on
tls            on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
logfile        /var/log/msmtp

# gmail
host           smtp.gmail.com
port           587
from           <account>@gmail.com
user           <account>
password       <password>

# Syslog logging with facility LOG_MAIL instead of the default LOG_USER
syslog LOG_MAIL

I wanted to use libsecret to not have the password showing, so I did the following

secret-tool store --label=msmtp host smtp.gmail.com service smtp user <account>

I verified that the password was stored by typing:

secret-tool lookup host smtp.gmail.com

I then modified /etc/msmtprc as follows:

account default
auth           on
tls            on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
logfile        /var/log/msmtp

# gmail
host           smtp.gmail.com
port           587
from           <account>@gmail.com
user           <account>

# Syslog logging with facility LOG_MAIL instead of the default LOG_USER
syslog LOG_MAIL

This is not working.

If I dump /var/log/msmtp I get the following:

Nov 12 14:36:30 host=smtp.gmail.com tls=on auth=on user= [email protected] recipients= smtpstatus=535 smtpmsg='535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at\n535 5.7.8 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=BadCredentials n10sm6743893wrv.77 - gsmtp' errormsg='authentication failed (method PLAIN)' exitcode=EX_NOPERM

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

I am trying to setup Ubuntu 20.04 with msmtp as a system configuration.

I installed msmtp (v1.8.6-1) and heirloom-mailx (v12.5-2+deb7u1build0.14.04.1).

Config file /etc/msmtprc (chmod: 600) has the following:

# Set default values for all accounts.
account default
auth           on
tls            on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
logfile        /var/log/msmtp

# gmail
host           smtp.gmail.com
port           587
from           <account>@gmail.com
user           <account>
password       <password>

# Syslog logging with facility LOG_MAIL instead of the default LOG_USER
syslog LOG_MAIL

Log file /var/log/msmtp file mode is 660.

File /etc/mailrc (chmod: 600) contains the following:

set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp"

When I try to use sendmail to send an email from terminal I get the following sendmail: account default not found: no configuration file available.

The same error comes up if I directly invoke msmtp.