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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2001 16:18:05 +0100
From:      Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syslog.conf && executing programs
Message-ID:  <20010511161805.A32757@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010511110227.A27757@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:02:27AM -0400
References:  <20010511110227.A27757@blackhelicopters.org>

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* Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> [010511 16:04]:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to use syslogd to mail me upon certain events.
> 
> local3.*                           | /usr/bin/mail -s alert mwlucas

Maybe syslog isn't sending EOF? Not sure if it normally does.

If you just want to mail the user mwlucas,
then 

local3.*                           mwlucas

will work, although you won't get the subject.

-- 
"I drink to make other people interesting."
		-- George Jean Nathan
Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns ::

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