[SunHELP] syslog send a mail

[Cloud L. Lee]

Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

>Cloud L. Lee says ...
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>>I want it's real time.
>>It send a mail immediately after syslog make a message.
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>I'll bet you don't, actually.
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>I had a mechanism like that on my SGI; it would send me an e-mail every time
>there was an unsuccessful SSH login attempt.
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>One day some bastard in Korea launched a dictionary attack against my SSH
>port.  Fortunately, it happened during the day, while I was here sitting at my
>desk, so I was able to shut off SSH and dump the mailqueue after the first 800
>or so messages.  Had I not done that, I expect he's have eventually filled the
>drive and killed the machine.
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>It could have been worse.  My original idea was to send an SMS message to my
>cellphone ...
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>Moral:  Think carefully about what you want.  You may get it.
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>-Shel
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Thanks ,Shel

The v880 is put in a safe LAN and it seldom make error messages .
Thanks for your advice.

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Cloud L. Lee