chuck wrote:
>
> I do not know if this is exactly correct... I have SU in my
> /usr/sbin directory and I used the grep(mail) from Charles's site.
>
> Per your goal below, I have a package for emailing your IP address
> also, its called mailip.lrp. it uses the same SU and MAIL as the package
> that emails logfiles.
>
> Chuck
>
Thanks go to both Chuck and and Brad. Ok so now I am sending mail with
both the POSIXness mail command and through mailip.lrp provided by
Chuck. This is just at the DCD command prompt. I haven't tried it with
multicron yet.
I am having trouble understanding the required use of su in the mail
scripts? I even whacked it out of the mailip script and I still
received the ip address. Is su required when you operate in a cron
environment? If multicron is operating already in as root, what
advantage does su provide other than issuing a command? I am sure
there is something subtle I am missing or su was required at one time.
If anyone has some ideas, please let me know.
My mini mail how to so far. I have tried this on Dachstein CD.
The information may be useful on other LEAF firewalls:
1.) Use a Dachstien release. mail has been fixed via the grep command.
Strange but true. You can find grep at
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/Packages/Utilities.htm
for earlier releases
2.) edit /etc/POSIXness.conf
a.) uncomment both MAIL_SERVER and MAIL_DOMAIN.
b.) MAIL_SERVER is set to your ISP's SMTP "outgoing" mail server
you can find these in your ISP's instructions or look in
your mail client's preferences. For example Netscape is
edit>preferences>Mail&Newsgroups>Mail Servers> then look in
the "Outgoing mail (SMTP) server:" box.
MAIL_SERVER=smtp.myisp.com
c.) If you are lucky set the MAIL_DOMAIN to the same SMTP
server as MAIL_SERVER. Otherwise, you will have to
turn on your mail headers and look for a mail server
that transferred mail to you. It is helpful to email
yourself a simple note so that you see the from mailer.
Lucky setting is
MAIL_DOMAIN=smtp.myisp.com
Mail header setting might be
MAIL_DOMAIN=iFoundOne.smtp.myisp.com
3.) edit /etc/lrp.conf
You will do this if you are going to uses Charles's mailonerr
command.
a.) uncomment both lrp_MAIL_SERVER and lrp_MAIL_ADMIN.
b.) set lrp_MAIL_SERVER to the same as 2.c i.e.
Lucky setting is
MAIL_DOMAIN=smtp.myisp.com
Mail header setting might be
MAIL_DOMAIN=iFoundOne.smtp.myisp.com
c.) set lrp_MAIL_ADMIN to your email address.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
4.) Backup the etc.lrp package. It contains the both the
POSIXness.conf file and the /etc/lrp.conf file.
5.) Use a command like the following at the command prompt to
see if your configuration works.
mail -s "test" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /var/log/messages
If you receive the following error,
nc: smtp: Unknown host
Error: Unknown response.
RSET
0:
Aborting due to connection error
Killing child processes: 28293 28296
then perform steps two through five again until the error goes
away. You still do not have your ISP's SMTP mail servers
correctly configured. Practice on step two's configuration
because that is all you need for the command line. See the
following thread for useful help.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=686539
Remember that you are configuring a server here and that
neither your email address or email password are required.
6.) See multicron issues here. cron/multicron does not provide
a very large path variable setting. You need to put in a
path statement.
Beginning of thread
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=686301
An important branch
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=686302
That takes you here
http://www.mail-archive.com/leaf-user%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg03040.html
7.) su is required for Charles Steinkuehler's mailonerror script.
Redhat puts the command in /bin. Put it there if that is the
"correct" place. [EMAIL PROTECTED] had success with /usr/sbin.
Backup root.lrp.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s script I wacked.
Note my initials at the points of change, gpm.
#!/bin/sh
# file = mailip 4/26/02
# gpm su_user=root Note this variable should be su_usr
su_usr=root # gpm
# gpm This was missing from Charles Steinkuehler's mailonerr command.
cmd="echo No command defined! && exit 1"
prefix=/tmp/$su_usr.$$
# gpm whack su's use.
# gpm { su $su_usr -c "$cmd"
# gpm } 2>$prefix.err 1>$prefix.out
{
#
echo " ">>$prefix.msg
echo "My IP address is :" >> $prefix.msg
echo " ">>$prefix.msg
cat /tmp/myip >>$prefix.msg
#
} > $prefix.msg
#
# gpm I replaced [EMAIL PROTECTED] with my email address.
mail -s "Internet IP address" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < $prefix.msg
# add others if you like
# gpm I only needed one email address.
# gpm mail -s "Internet IP address" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < $prefix.msg
#
rm $prefix*
#
# written by
# vette66 (chuck)
# http://www.vette66.com
I hope this helps,
Greg Morgan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dragon
> Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 3:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [leaf-user] Is there a way to auto email log files
>
> > "chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I created a package to do just that...
> > > e-mail log files to a single or multiple addresses and
> > > you can specify which files to send.
> > > Its called mailstats.lrp and can be found at
> > > http://www.vette66.com
> > >
> > > It requires a working SU command and MAIL command.
> >
> > Is there a way to tell if you already have the working su and mail
> > commands already on your LEAF release? I see from
> > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/Packages/Utilities.htm I can get su and grep
> > (mail) command for Dachstien. Dargon was asking about this on bering
> > rc2. From Charle's site is says that grep(mail) is in Dachstein
> > releases. I looked all around in bin and sbin directories of my running
> > DCD 1.02. I could not find su. So I guess su is not included on the
> > CD. So do I
> >
> > 1.) put su in /bin?
> > 2.) edit /var/lib/lrpkg/root*list to add su?
> > 3.) backup root.lrp?
> >
> > I ask all these questions because I was unsuccessful using ipmail out of
> > KP Kirchdoerfer's modification to DCD 1.02 described at
> > http://leaf.sourceforge.net/article.php?op=Print&sid=30. The release
> > notes suggested that there still is a problem with mail.
> >
> > Can anyone provides some more tips or links to mail configuration?
> >
> > My goal is to mail the dyanmaic ip address to another client. The
> > client needs to ssh to backup files on a LEAF protected network.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Greg Morgan
> >
> > > I expanded what was done by Charles and his mailonerr script.
> > > Hope this helps,
> > > vette66 (Chuck)
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Dragon Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > <snip>
> >
> > > > I am using bering rc2. The /var/log directory gets
> > > > filled up quickly. How can I set it up such that the
> > > > files get automatically forwarded to an email address
> > > > and deleted when gets to a certain size?
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