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------------------------------------------- Glen Batchelor IT Director All-Spec Industries phone: (910) 332-0424 fax: (910) 763-5664 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- www.allspec.com ------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hennessey, Mark F. > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [U2] Emails into AIX > > <snip> > > I am happily using sendmail to email from the aix boxes > > but I need to be able to email into the aix box to trigger automatioc > process > > </snip> > > Allowing mail to come in from the outside world could be dangerous, so > read up on sendmail first. > > I'd guess one way would be to have mailboxes for each job you'd want an e- > mail to trigger. A cron > job then could scan the directory where the mail is help. On my Solaris > machine e-mails are kept in > a text file /usr/mail/{userid}. Let's say you wanted to start backups > based on e-mail input. You > could have a cron job periodically check to see if the file > /usr/mail/start_backups existed. If so, it would fire off the backups > (and delete the file...). > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
