From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 10:24:58 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 9E9B237B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be01.comm.charter.net (be01.comm.charter.net [209.225.8.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF0743E3B for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:24:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from krogers@hanleyindustries.com) Received: from [24.217.11.114] (HELO lobby) by be01.comm.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with SMTP id 41770049; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:24:57 -0400 Message-ID: <003a01c24a00$d670d750$1200a8c0@lobby> From: "Kevin Rogers" To: "Robert Westendorp" Cc: References: <001701c249fc$a6b8f280$1200a8c0@lobby> <00c801c249ff$8fc5aca0$d3a1f4cc@rob> Subject: Re: automated paging Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:24:57 -0500 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 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 How well does qpage work if the box is connected via cable modem? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Westendorp" To: "Kevin Rogers" ; "Doug Hardie" Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:15 PM Subject: Re: automated paging > > ----- 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