Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:26:00 +0000 From: robert <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sending error messages to a cell phone? Message-ID: <1142198760.11274.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0603121313k4f2949e3q978e9394946bab02@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef10de9a0603121313k4f2949e3q978e9394946bab02@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 15:13 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > I have an email address setup for my cell phone and I would like > FreeBSD to send critical error messages to this address. > > How do I tell FreeBSD to do this and more importantly should I do > this, because it costs 10 cents for each message? > > Nickolas, You can get all messages sent to root forwarded to another address by adding that address to the /etc/aliases file, this is read by sendmail or rather the database created when you run newaliases when it needs to know where to send mail. You can decide which messages to send too. As to the value - well that is up to you and how critical the machine is. hope this helps Rob
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