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Date:      Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:37:59 -0500
From:      "Kevin Rogers" <krogers@hanleyindustries.com>
To:        "Doug Hardie" <bc979@lafn.org>
Cc:        "BSD help" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: automated paging
Message-ID:  <009301c24a02$abaae950$1200a8c0@lobby>
References:  <001701c249fc$a6b8f280$1200a8c0@lobby> <f05111b73b98ac8eff4f5@[66.81.78.220]> <002c01c249fe$f9821d50$1200a8c0@lobby> <f05111b75b98acd1defa1@[66.81.78.220]>

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Thanks for the script I am now debating on using big brother or qpage.
possably a combination of both.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Hardie" <bc979@lafn.org>
To: "Kevin Rogers" <krogers@hanleyindustries.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: automated paging


> I wrote a program as I wanted a log of the pages along with some
> other logging capabilities.  I will attach a copy of the source I
> use.  Note it is setup for a server on one machine and clients on the
> others.  The server does the logging.  The clients send the alert
> messages.  I keep one log for multiple machines.  The use of shared
> memory is a leftover and is no longer needed.  I never bothered to
> clean it up.
>
>
> At 1211 -0500 8/22/2002, Kevin Rogers wrote:
> >As I have not bought the pager yet I would probably get one that supports
> >the e-mail.  How do you have yours set up?  Did you write a script or do
you
> >have program.  I am looking for a free program or a script that I can
write
> >because I am on a rather small budget.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Doug Hardie" <bc979@lafn.org>
> >To: "Kevin Rogers" <krogers@hanleyindustries.com>
> >Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> >Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 12:01 PM
> >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: <mailto:krogers@hanleyindustries.com>Kevin Rogers
> >>  >To:
<mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>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
>


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> --
> -- Doug


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