From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 12 21:26:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 50B3216A402 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:26:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: from lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (mail.bathnetworks.com [84.92.24.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D19F143D48 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:26:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: (qmail 18301 invoked by uid 510); 12 Mar 2006 21:30:02 +0000 Received: from 192.168.0.108 by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.88/1261. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(192.168.0.108):SA:0(-3.5/5.0):. Processed in 0.973462 secs); 12 Mar 2006 21:30:02 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: bsd@bathnetworks.com via lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(192.168.0.108):SA:0(-3.5/5.0):. Processed in 0.973462 secs Process 18275) Received: from usr002 (HELO ubuntu.bathnetworks.local.bathnetworks.local) (bsd@bathnetworks.com@192.168.0.108) by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 12 Mar 2006 21:30:00 +0000 From: robert To: Nikolas Britton In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:26:00 +0000 Message-Id: <1142198760.11274.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sending error messages to a cell phone? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:26:06 -0000 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