From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 10:17:39 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 9E38437B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:17:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx3.uniserve.ca (mx3.uniserve.ca [216.113.192.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4779443E42 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:17:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjwsys@uniserve.com) Received: from rob.office.uniserve.ca ([204.244.161.211] helo=rob) by mx3.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.04) id 17hvaQ-000CX5-00; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:17:34 -0700 Message-ID: <00c801c249ff$8fc5aca0$d3a1f4cc@rob> From: "Robert Westendorp" To: "Kevin Rogers" , "Doug Hardie" Cc: References: <001701c249fc$a6b8f280$1200a8c0@lobby> Subject: Re: automated paging Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:15:49 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Scanner: Scanned in 0.02 seconds OK *17hvaQ-000CX5-00*6V/OSOLkuNY* 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Hardie" To: "Kevin Rogers" Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:01 AM Subject: re: automated paging > 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. We use a system of both e-mail and pager. The pager system uses our Cell Phone/Pager providers paging gateway. We use QPage to dial into the gateway via modem and send the page.. but if your pager can be contacted via e-mail that's a great way to do it as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message