Ok I did it and know I get another error :-( here goes the error: Died at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/Mailer.pm line 284.
this is the code: use strict; use warnings; use Mail::Mailer; my @lines = (); open (INFO, "/var/log/messages") or die "$!"; while (my $line = <INFO>) { if ($line =~ /IDS/) { push @lines,$line; } } close INFO; if (@lines) { my $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new("smtp", "10.83.27.71"); $mailer->open({ 'From' => 'Syslog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>', 'To' => 'gabriela pinado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>', 'Subject' => 'PiX Detected Attack' }); print $mailer @lines; $mailer->close or die "can't close mailer: $!"; } ~ please assist! thanks very much ! Juan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/