An admin could also be running some sort of script or program against the mail - possibly a perl script, or something of the like, in order to enter the info into a database, or just to alert the IT dept of possible intrusion attempts coming from certain IP addresses.
S >From: "Luis.F.Correia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [leaf-user] Mailing logs from Bering >Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:09:57 +0100 > > >Simple: > >You are an admin which has 2+ Leaf routers to monitor and have no time >to login in each of them everyday to check the logs. > >More: you also have to admin a series of NT/2000 servers which require >much attention and care :) > >So, you have, globally, two choices: > >Either you have a global syslog server where all the logs of all your >servers are gathered there, > >Or you receive the logs by mail. > >Ah! one other thing, if the ramdisk gets full because there are a lot >of logs, the firewall stops. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 4:03 PM >To: LEAF >Subject: [leaf-user] Mailing logs from Bering > > >Hi folks, >One of the things I enjoy so much about this newsgroup is all of the >information one gleans from some of you people! Having said that, could >someone explain to me...why would you WANT to have your log files >e-mailed to you??? What are trying to really achieve (i.e., what are you >looking for)??? Thank you, have a great weekend! > >Craig > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old >cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! >https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user >SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old >cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! >https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user >SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html