On our Linux RHES4.x box, I've seen a vendor issuing "telnet localhost 25" helo ... subject... ... content ... quit (or exit or end?) to send out mails to say a yahoo addr from our Linux box. I'll need the exact commands in a Shell script to do : ssh to a remote server to do "tail -f /app/servers/slapd-hostname/logs/errors | grep -i replication" if there's a replication message that appears in the log of the remote server (which does not have SMTP/postfix running in it), then email out the line of text from the log with replication message asap (within 30 secs) to xxxx@xxxxxxxxx & yyyy@xxxxxxxxx Note that our current SMTP/Postfix server can't ssh using public+private keys to the remote server, just using password authentication, so the ssh session once logged in to the remote box has to be left open/logged in constantly -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list