I do this on a regular basis. In /etc/aliases (run newaliases after editing this, or if that exec doesn't exist, run sendmail -bi) I put the following type of lines:
klpcell: [email protected],karl bobcell: [email protected],bob where NNNNNNNNNN is the ten-digit cell phone number. The part after the '@'-sign is the domain of the cell phone company, T-Mobile=tmomail.net and AT&T=mmode.com (I believe that's correct) and a copy is sent to the users's regular email inbox, which is useful if you use Verizon, which chops text messages down to 160 characters (I don't know why, they just do). Each carrier has a different domain, with Cricket not having one, so this won't be possible without some screen scraping software that can go to their website. I hope this helps. Karl On Thu, November 5, 2009 1:05 pm, Barber, Bonnie wrote: > We send ourselves alerts from some of our Universe processes via UNIX > sendmail. We would like to be able to send some of the critical alerts > as text messages to our personal cell phones when there is no one around > to monitor emails. Does anyone know if this is possible? The alerts > currently go to our company pager, however the pager is rotated through > our whole department and it is not always carried by someone who is > familiar with our Universe OM system so the alerts are ignored. > > Thanks in advance for your responses. > > Bonnie Barber > Perseus Distribution | Senior Programmer, J-Cispub > 731-988-3135 Direct 800-343-4499 ext. 178 > 731-988-4452 Fax > "A smile is like a light in the window telling people you are home" > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > --- Karl Pearson [email protected] Owner/Administrator of the sites at http://ourldsfamily.com --- "To mess up your Linux PC, you have to really work at it; to mess up a microsoft PC you just have to work on it." --- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. --Benjamin Franklin --- _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
