Dan, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dan (ddp) [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 2:11 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ossec-list] Linux group?
> 
> Hi Nate,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Nate Woodward 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'd like use the method described at
> > http://www.ossec.net/wiki/Know_How:GranularEmail to send 
> > windows-related messages to one group of people and linux-related 
> > messages to another group. I see that there's a 'windows' group 
> > already, so that I can just put this in ossec.conf:
> >
> > <email_alerts>
> >  <email_to>[email protected]</email_to>
> >  <group>windows</group>
> > </email_alerts>
> >
> > It doesn't look like there's an equivalent group for linux. 
> Could one 
> > be created by doing something like the following in local_rules.xml?
> >
> > <group name="linux">
> >  <group>linuxkernel</group>
> >  <group>syslog</group>
> >  <group>ftpd</group>
> >  <!-- etc... -->
> > </group>
> >
> 
> No, I don't think that would work.
> 
> The appropriate place for email distribution lists is on the 
> email server. Look into creating a distribution list for the 
> linux admins.
> That type of thing would also be useful for all sorts of 
> things like helpdesk ticket assignment emails, Nagios 
> notification emails, etc.
> 

I'm not asking about somehow creating a distribution list within OSSEC. 
I'm looking for the best way to pick out email alerts that only linux 
admins would be interested in, for use with the <email_alerts> tag.

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