From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 10: 5:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E427B37B401 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A07843E4A for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:05:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [66.81.78.220] (66-81-23-140-modem.o1.com [66.81.23.140]) by zoon.lafn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g7MH5WL07767; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:05:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bc979@mail.lafn.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <001701c249fc$a6b8f280$1200a8c0@lobby> References: <001701c249fc$a6b8f280$1200a8c0@lobby> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:01:22 -0700 To: "Kevin Rogers" From: Doug Hardie Subject: re: automated paging Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1154 -0500 8/22/2002, Kevin Rogers wrote: >Are there any free ones or is there some way that I could write my >own script? I am on a rather small budget that most of it was spwnt >buying the box. >----- Original Message ----- >From: Kevin Rogers >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 11:31 AM >Subject: automated paging > >I am making a mail server/firewall for the company that I work for >and would like to know how to make a script that pages me via text >message when ever something goes wrong, i.e. hacker attempt, or one >of the other computers on the network goes down. Any help would be >greatly appreciated It depends on how you activate the pager. Mine takes a e-mail addressed properly and it sends me the text of the message (first hundred or so bytes). You can include a mail command in a script or create an app that handles notification of the pager. I did the latter as I wanted it to keep a log of the pages. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message