Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:15:49 -0700 From: "Robert Westendorp" <rjwsys@uniserve.com> To: "Kevin Rogers" <krogers@hanleyindustries.com>, "Doug Hardie" <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: automated paging Message-ID: <00c801c249ff$8fc5aca0$d3a1f4cc@rob> References: <001701c249fc$a6b8f280$1200a8c0@lobby> <f05111b73b98ac8eff4f5@[66.81.78.220]>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Hardie" <bc979@lafn.org> To: "Kevin Rogers" <krogers@hanleyindustries.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:01 AM 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. We use a system of both e-mail and pager. The pager system uses our Cell Phone/Pager providers paging gateway. We use QPage to dial into the gateway via modem and send the page.. but if your pager can be contacted via e-mail that's a great way to do it as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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