Re: How to simulate procmail

Hi,

> The user's .procmailrc is irrelevant, deposit the mail directly into  
> their maildir into a folder named SYSTEM_ALERT or something like that.
> 
> If they are overquota, they must be storing mail on your server, so  
> you don't care where they forward to.

If they have a procmail receipt to forward all their mail to, let's
say a gmail account, they will never read mail on my local server, so
they will never see the alert.

I need to deliver the alert in the mailbox they are actually reading.

Best regards,

olivier

Re: How to simulate procmail

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote:

> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:25:35 +0700 (ICT)
> From: Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole <at> cs.ait.ac.th>
> To: kremels <at> kreme.com
> Cc: procmail <at> lists.RWTH-Aachen.de
> Subject: Re: How to simulate procmail
> 
> Hi,
>
>> The user's .procmailrc is irrelevant, deposit the mail directly into
>> their maildir into a folder named SYSTEM_ALERT or something like that.
>>
>> If they are overquota, they must be storing mail on your server, so
>> you don't care where they forward to.
>
> If they have a procmail receipt to forward all their mail to, let's
> say a gmail account, they will never read mail on my local server, so
> they will never see the alert.
>
> I need to deliver the alert in the mailbox they are actually reading.

Put the message into the user's login prompt will be more practical.
A message to alert the user when the quota is 90% full would be more 
useful.

Automated emails, especially email from 'root', 'admin', could be easliy 
lost along with spam mails therefore would never reach the user.

Zhiliang

executing a shell command

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Re: executing a shell command

* <davy <at> scu.escambray.com.cu> [04.09.2009 18:17]:
> So, if the message From is john <at> example.com and subject is exactly
> "messages" send me a reply with the file  /var/log/messages

I am using msmtp as smtp client, so maybe you have to change msmtp to
i.e. sendmail.

:0 H
* ^FROM:.john <at> example.com
* ^Subject:.messages
| msmtp -a account "special <at> example.com" < /var/log/messages

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Re: executing a shell command

ok thanks I tried it and works fine using sendmail. The problem is this. I 
run the command from the cmmand lien fr testing purposes and get the 
following response

sendmail special <at> example.com < /var/log/messages

response:    /var/log/messages: Permission denied

David

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Re: executing a shell command

Evening,

Am 2009-09-04 19:42:07, schrieb Thomas Göbel:
> * <davy <at> scu.escambray.com.cu> [04.09.2009 18:17]:
> > So, if the message From is john <at> example.com and subject is exactly
> > "messages" send me a reply with the file  /var/log/messages
> 
> I am using msmtp as smtp client, so maybe you have to change msmtp to
> i.e. sendmail.
> 
> :0 H

"H" ist the default and not nessesary

> * ^FROM:.john <at> example.com
> * ^Subject:.messages

Maybe you should use .*

> | msmtp -a account "special <at> example.com" < /var/log/messages

Hmmm, you are piping the whole message to msmtp?

I would do simpel:

:0
* ^FROM:.*john <at> example\.com
* ^Subject:.*messages
{
  DUMY_EXEC=`msmtp -a account "special <at> example.com" < /var/log/messages`
  :0
  .REQUEST/
}

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    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
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Re: Re: executing a shell command

* <davy <at> scu.escambray.com.cu> [04.09.2009 20:34]:
> ok thanks I tried it and works fine using sendmail. The problem is
> this. I run the command from the cmmand lien fr testing purposes and
> get the following response
> 
> sendmail special <at> example.com < /var/log/messages
> 
> response:    /var/log/messages: Permission denied

Simply change the group of /var/log to i.e. log and add your user to the
group log. Should solve it.
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Re: Re: executing a shell command

Selon Thomas Göbel <goebel.thomas <at> gmx.net>:

> * <davy <at> scu.escambray.com.cu> [04.09.2009 20:34]:
> > ok thanks I tried it and works fine using sendmail. The problem is
> > this. I run the command from the cmmand lien fr testing purposes and
> > get the following response
> >
> > sendmail special <at> example.com < /var/log/messages
> >
> > response:    /var/log/messages: Permission denied
>
> Simply change the group of /var/log to i.e. log and add your user to the
> group log. Should solve it.
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hi,

	explain thats wy dont use logwatch ?

kindest regard

bernard

Re: executing a shell command

At 14:18 2009-09-04 -0500, Davy Leon wrote:
>sendmail special <at> example.com < /var/log/messages
>
>response:    /var/log/messages: Permission denied

You do understand the concept of file access permissions in Unix, right?

Does the user you're involking this as have permission to access the 
logfile in question?  Commonly, you'd need to be a member of the root or 
wheel group, but check the perms on the file.

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