On 25/04/2008, Roland Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of a way of achieving this or have any other > > suggestions? My only other alternative is to enable sendmail but > > restrict it to only accept connections on the loopback address, however > > this may have implications as our security teams may have asked for > > sendmail to be disabled by default (I'm looking into this). > > > > > I'd go with the perl script already mentioned or look at installing > something like SSMTP on the server. To be honest its not a bad idea to > install a proper MTA so you don't need to set up custom mailing for > other monitoring scripts. Modern Sendmail shouldn't really be a security > risk but to you are much better off with Exim or Postfix (Exim being my > choice) and can be very simply configured to use an SMTP smarthost on > all modern installs. > > Also consider using something like nagios or even just the logger > command to send out the information to a central monitoring host. > > > -- > Roland Ward (Director) > > Penguin Factory Ltd > www.penguinfactory.co.uk > Tel: 0845 868 3988 > > PenguinFactory Limited is a limited company registered in Scotland > registered in Scotland number SC270171. > Registered office: Penguin Factory Limited, c/o Sinclair Wood and Co. 90 > Mitchell Street Glasgow. G1 3NQ. > > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish >
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