From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 8:18:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91BA537B43C for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 08:18:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rasputin@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14yEge-000N09-00; Fri, 11 May 2001 16:18:36 +0100 Received: (from rasputin@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4BFI5k32906; Fri, 11 May 2001 16:18:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rasputin) Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:18:05 +0100 From: Rasputin To: Michael Lucas Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog.conf && executing programs Message-ID: <20010511161805.A32757@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <20010511110227.A27757@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010511110227.A27757@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:02:27AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Michael Lucas [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 :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message