duh. I don't know what I was thinking. Sorry for the stupid reply.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Nate Woodward
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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