Re: Software to SEND log files only?

2010-09-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:33:20 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > Most mail servers will block sendmail's connections from a dynamic IP: > the advantage to ssmtp is that it forwards mail to the ISP's server. That's sadly true (mostly because of the amounts of spam produced by ordinary PCs on dynamic IPs).

Re: Software to SEND log files only?

2010-09-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Sep 22 00:32:52 2010 > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:33:20 +0100 > From: Bruce Cran > To: Adam Vande More > Cc: Ed Flecko , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Software to SEND log files only? > > On Tue, 21 Sep 20

Re: Software to SEND log files only?

2010-09-22 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 09/21/2010 10:17 PM, Len Conrad wrote: > -- Original Message -- > From: Ed Flecko > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:56:13 -0700 > > >> According to the FreeBSD website >> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/outgoing-only.html), the easiest >> way to send m

Re: Software to SEND log files only?

2010-09-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > Most mail servers will block sendmail's connections from a dynamic IP: > the advantage to ssmtp is that it forwards mail to the ISP's server. > A small few, not most will do this IME. The larger issue is/was that some providers blocked port

Re: Software to SEND log files only?

2010-09-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:16:35 -0500 Adam Vande More wrote: > That's pretty silly article if you ask me, sendmail is setup to that > by default. > > just add something like this to cron: > > uuencode /path/to/logfile logfile | mail -s "logfile" > yourem...@example.com Most mail servers will bloc

Re: Software to SEND log files only?

2010-09-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:56:13 -0700 > From: Ed Flecko > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Software to SEND log files only? > > According to the FreeBSD website > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/outgoing-only.html), the easiest > way to send mail onl

Re: Software to SEND log files only?

2010-09-21 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: Ed Flecko Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:56:13 -0700 >According to the FreeBSD website >(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/outgoing-only.html), the easiest >way to send mail only is to install the mail/ssmtp port. > >Does anyone h

Re: Software to SEND log files only?

2010-09-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Ed Flecko wrote: > According to the FreeBSD website > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/outgoing-only.html), the easiest > way to send mail only is to install the mail/ssmtp port. > > Does anyone have an example of a script or other method (maybe a cron > scrip

Software to SEND log files only?

2010-09-21 Thread Ed Flecko
According to the FreeBSD website (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/outgoing-only.html), the easiest way to send mail only is to install the mail/ssmtp port. Does anyone have an example of a script or other method (maybe a cron script?) that would e-mail my log files to me daily? Thank you, Ed