Notification service

Notification service#

This section provides instructions for activating the email notification service.

Launching the service with poetry#

From the directory used to install Vulnerability-Lookup:

poetry run flask --app website.app notify_users

Launching the service with systemd#

Create the file /etc/systemd/system/vulnerability-lookup-notify.service:

[Unit]
Description=Vulnerability-Lookup notification service
After=vulnerability-lookup-web.service
Requires=vulnerability-lookup-web.service

[Service]
Type=simple
User=<system user used to install Vulnerability-Lookup>
Group=<group of the user used to install Vulnerability-Lookup>
WorkingDirectory=<path to the cloned repository>
Environment="PATH=<path-to-virtualenv>/bin:/home/<user>/.local/bin:/usr/bin"
Environment="VULNERABILITYLOOKUP_HOME=<path to the cloned repository>"
ExecStart=/bin/bash -lc "poetry run flask --app website.app notify_users"
StandardOutput=append:/var/log/vulnerability-lookup_notify_message.log
StandardError=append:/var/log/vulnerability-lookup_notify_error.log
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=15s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Note

Adjust the variables appropriately.

Then reload and enable the service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable vulnerability-lookup-notify.service
sudo systemctl start vulnerability-lookup-notify.service
systemctl status vulnerability-lookup-notify.service

To follow the service logs live:

sudo journalctl -u vulnerability-lookup-notify.service -f

Error logs:

tail -f logs/vulnerability-lookup_notify_error.log

Messages:

tail -f logs/vulnerability-lookup_notify_message.log
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