FreeBSD Administration Question

[jmercer at nildram.co.uk]

Mark Stewart <Mark.Stewart at bacs.co.uk> wrote :

> Hi all,
> 
> I have been using FreeBSD nearly a year now and have setup about a dozen +
> working servers.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had written or use some kind of parser program that
> reads the emailed output report and warns you of any problems. (e.g. Hard disk
> is filling up etc). I would like the emailed reports from all my machines to go
> to a specific address, the reports are then read by said program that creates a
> nice report flagging errors if there are any)

I've wondered about this too, and the thing that occurs to me is to set up an alias within Sendmail, so that emails to root get copied (or diverted) to another user, who may not be on the same box.
This may not be quite what you were wanting but it would work though.

Cheers,

Jon

> 
> This would save me reading the reports all the time and help out support center
> diagnose faults without having any real technical know-how.
> 
> Krgds
> 
> Mark
> 
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