On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:17 +0200, KAPTURKIEWICZ Patrick wrote:
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,
On Wednesday 04 June 2008 23:20:39 Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm actually running a dovecot/IMAP server on the machine, alfred,
that I want the email sent to.
I read my email on my laptops from this server.
This works beautifully.
If you changed to postfix-sendmail I could tell you exactly how to
Dave Burns wrote:
OP seems to have two problems:
1) sendmail is not configured correctly, email sent by cron jobs is
not delivered.
2) He would like to send mail to an address which is broken, either
the domain doers not exist or DNS not working right? Could it be that
his machine has the
Tim wrote:
Maybe I shouldn't
define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.eircom.net')dnl
If you have a properly set up local DNS and mail system, then your
internal mail will be handled all internally, and mail that goes to
outside addresses will be relayed from your SMTP server to the ISP's.
Tim:
If you have a properly set up local DNS and mail system, then your
internal mail will be handled all internally, and mail that goes to
outside addresses will be relayed from your SMTP server to the ISP's.
That's the smart part about it - it working out what's internal or
external, and
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Sendmail should fall back to A records if no MX exists, and it should
accept any names you've added to /etc/mail/local-host-names (requires a
sendmail restart) as local regardless of what DNS says. If you want
network-local mail delivered to some other machine you can
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:52 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I think that is exactly my problem -
sendmail is not distinguishing properly between internal and external
mail.
This is usual with MTAs. Their world view distinguishes pretty much
between mail I am accepting for my input queue, to be
Steven Tardy wrote:
It seems to be more difficult than I thought
to send email from one machine on a LAN to another.
echo alfred.gayleard.com esmtp:[192.168.2.1] /etc/mail/mailertable
/etc/init.d/sendmail restart
Thanks very much.
That certainly changed things.
According to
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Steven Tardy wrote:
It seems to be more difficult than I thought
to send email from one machine on a LAN to another.
echo alfred.gayleard.com esmtp:[192.168.2.1] /etc/mail/mailertable
/etc/init.d/sendmail restart
Thanks very much.
That certainly changed things.
Steven Tardy wrote:
echo alfred.gayleard.com esmtp:[192.168.2.1] /etc/mail/mailertable
/etc/init.d/sendmail restart
Thanks very much.
That certainly changed things.
According to /var/log/maillog on helen the email was sent
without involving my ISP:
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 07:29:20PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
No, the IP address of alfred is 192.168.2.1 ,
as it says in /etc/mail/mailertable on helen:
alfred.gayleard.com esmtp:[192.168.2.1]
Thanks for your help.
I'll pursue the missing message -
I should be able to work out
On 4. juuni 2008. a. 2:56, Timothy Murphy wrote
How can I get the logwatch report on one machine (helen.gayleard.com)
sent to another machine (alfred.gayleard.com) on the same LAN?
I tried editing /etc/aliases on the first machine,
changing the last line to
root: [EMAIL
On Wednesday 04 June 2008 19:35:31 Dave Burns wrote:
OP seems to have two problems:
1) sendmail is not configured correctly, email sent by cron jobs is
not delivered.
2) He would like to send mail to an address which is broken, either
the domain doers not exist or DNS not working right?
Craig White wrote:
Speaking of which, you could try changing the mailto field in
/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf.
This file was empty (except for a comment line) on my Fedora-9 system.
But I've added
---
MailTo = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MailFrom = Logwatch
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:52 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Craig White wrote:
Speaking of which, you could try changing the mailto field in
/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf.
This file was empty (except for a comment line) on my Fedora-9 system.
But I've added
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I realize that these names are not known to the real world.
But I imagine that there must be some way of sending email
from one machine on a LAN to another
I can think of four ways, there could be more:
* use 'real' DNS
*
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 09:05 -1000, Dave Burns wrote:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I realize that these names are not known to the real world.
But I imagine that there must be some way of sending email
from one machine on a LAN to another
I can
g wrote:
also curious if you have considered either a cron to copy files over
your own lan to like '/var/log/lan.new/*.timestamp'.
another cron or what ever to kick them into logwatch.
read about it in one of my networking books. said to be easier
and better. have not had need to try.
Frederick William New wrote:
How can I get the logwatch report on one machine (helen.gayleard.com)
sent to another machine (alfred.gayleard.com) on the same LAN?
It seems to be more difficult than I thought
to send email from one machine on a LAN to another.
Is there some line I could add
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 20:33 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Frederick William New wrote:
How can I get the logwatch report on one machine (helen.gayleard.com)
sent to another machine (alfred.gayleard.com) on the same LAN?
It seems to be more difficult than I thought
to send email from
Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 20:33 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Frederick William New wrote:
How can I get the logwatch report on one machine (helen.gayleard.com)
sent to another machine (alfred.gayleard.com) on the same LAN?
It seems to be more difficult than I thought
to send
Dave Burns wrote:
OP seems to have two problems:
1) sendmail is not configured correctly, email sent by cron jobs is
not delivered.
2) He would like to send mail to an address which is broken, either
the domain doers not exist or DNS not working right? Could it be that
his machine has the
Dave Burns wrote:
I realize that these names are not known to the real world.
But I imagine that there must be some way of sending email
from one machine on a LAN to another
I can think of four ways, there could be more:
* use 'real' DNS
* make your own DNS server locally
* put name in
Craig White wrote:
/etc/hosts is easy, but will break whenever the IP numbers change.
unless I am missing something here, mail will still not work because it
will still query for a MX record for the domain and thus /etc/hosts is
not suitable for mail handling
But does sendmail always
Les Mikesell wrote:
Sendmail should fall back to A records if no MX exists, and it should
accept any names you've added to /etc/mail/local-host-names (requires a
sendmail restart) as local regardless of what DNS says. If you want
network-local mail delivered to some other machine you can
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Burns wrote:
OP seems to have two problems:
1) sendmail is not configured correctly, email sent by cron jobs is
not delivered.
2) He would like to send mail to an address which is broken, either
the domain doers
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I get the logwatch report on one machine (helen.gayleard.com)
sent to another machine (alfred.gayleard.com) on the same LAN?
I tried editing /etc/aliases on the first machine,
changing the last line to
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 23:07 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Maybe I shouldn't
define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.eircom.net')dnl
If you have a properly set up local DNS and mail system, then your
internal mail will be handled all internally, and mail that goes to
outside addresses will be relayed
Fedora uses syslogd to provide a syslog service.
The default configuration of syslogd rejects messages from remote systems.
To configure a Fedora system to accept log messages from other systems
on the network, edit the file /etc/sysconfig/syslog.
You must use root privileges to edit the file
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 02:54 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Dave Burns wrote:
How can I get the logwatch report on one machine (helen.gayleard.com)
sent to another machine (alfred.gayleard.com) on the same LAN?
I tried editing /etc/aliases on the first machine,
changing the last line to
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