I want it to be automated, for example, logwatch or tripwire by default
sends e-mail to root user in box1 whenever there is unusual activity,
what I want is, these e-mails or reports redirected to my admin account
in box2. How? and shall I need a running sendmail daemon here?
Thanks.
Ben Yau wrote:
If you want this to be automated in someway, you will have to run it as a
daemon so there is something listening to send mail. Is your question how
to set up sendmail as a daemon ONLY to send reports? Or is your question
how do you send the reports without running a daemon?
I put something like this in some of my scripts
cat report.txt | /usr/lib/sendmail -f fromaddress@xxxxxxxxxx -v
toaddress@xxxxxxxxxx
For easier reading, include a Subject and To header as the first two lines
of report.txt... e.g.:
# cat report.txt
Subject: subject line
To: toaddress@xxxxxxxxxx
Startreport
blah blha
yaddayadda
endreport
#
Is that what you're looking for? You will still need a working sendmail.cf
file even though you are not running it as a daemon.
Ben Yau
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-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lito Lampitoc
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:34 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: how to use sendmail as a client
When sending e-mail to root it says,
to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:30, xdelay=00:00:00,
mailer=relay, pri=30339, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0,
stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Also, as much as possible, I don't want to run the sendmail daemon as
it is insecure, all I want to do is use sendmail to send e-mail to my
admin(root) account in my other box for whatever activities it detected.
Anish Mathew wrote:
Lito Lampitoc <ral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
How do I setup sendmail on one of my box to send e-mail to my >>admin
account in my mail server?
I guess u need to add this line to ur sendmail.mc file
define(`SMART_HOST',`your mail server`)
after that recreate sendmail.cf file using m4 macro
m4 < /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
restart sendmail daemon after that ur sendmail will be a client
forwarding mail to your main server.. if this is what ur looking for..
hope that would help
Anish
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