Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 10:01:22 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: "Kevin Rogers" <krogers@hanleyindustries.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: re: automated paging Message-ID: <f05111b73b98ac8eff4f5@[66.81.78.220]> In-Reply-To: <001701c249fc$a6b8f280$1200a8c0@lobby> References: <001701c249fc$a6b8f280$1200a8c0@lobby>
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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. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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