On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 22:40 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I think this is a misunderstanding of what I am trying to do. > I could easily send my logwatch report to the machine I want (alfred) > by posting it to gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx , my email address. > I collect my mail by fetchmail from my ISP every 5 minutes. > (I also collect it from 2 other servers, including gmail.com , > as well as a UUCP feed.) > > But I think it must be possible to process and deliver it locally, > and am trying to find out if this belief is justified. My memory done failed me now, but during my old Caldera days, there was an app that you installed on your "master" machine, with a little script that was installed to all of your satellite machines that you wanted to monitor. Basically, each of the machines that you wanted to monitor would send log files to the master host periodically (as often as you desired by setting some simple parameters) and when one of them went mission-critical the app, as it scanned the log files, would note things like hard-drive failures, net connectivity problems, anything you set it to monitor for, and you had a screen that showed all of the machines in green, if OK, or red, if not. Clicking on the square of the flashing red machine would reveal the actual log and the problems. Nifty as all heck. The Dept of Agriculture in Texas used it to monitor hundreds of machines on their intranet. It was free, very basic, and it worked like a charm. For the life of me, I cannot remember the name of it, for the life of me. But, it basically did what I think you are trying to do. Ergo, what I think you want to do, is doable! I had sendmail up and running but I don't think it relied on DNS as all of the addresses were static. Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar https://oar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ----------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
