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forward-email-to-slack-webhook/README.md

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 # send emails to root to slack
 
-# prerequisites
+## slack side
 
-`apt update && apt -y install git python3 make postfix`
+First you must go [here](https://api.slack.com/incoming-webhooks) and create
+a new slack app and choose a channel and get a webhook URL.
 
-# install
+```
+mkdir -p /etc/environment.d
+echo 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXX/XXXXXXX/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' >
+    /etc/environment.d/SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL
+```
+
+## prerequisites
+
+```
+export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+apt update
+apt -y install git python3 make postfix daemontools
+```
+
+## install helper
 
 ```
 mkdir -p /etc/environment.d
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     make install
 ```
 
-and
+## example usage
 
-```
+`apt install -y smartmontools`
-mkdir -p /etc/environment.d
+
-echo 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXX/XXXXXXX/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' >
+Now you'll get a slack notification when your disk is going to die, because
-    /etc/environment.d/SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL
+smartmontools emails root by default when it detects problems.
-```