From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 13:13:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA29661 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:13:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (pm1-02.wmbg.widomaker.com [204.17.220.102]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA29656 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:13:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by garion.hq.ferg.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA15561; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:13:15 -0400 Message-Id: <199608202013.QAA15561@garion.hq.ferg.com> X-Authentication-Warning: garion.hq.ferg.com: Host localhost.hq.ferg.com didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 From: Branson Matheson To: "Sean J. Schluntz" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sending Text Messages to a Pager from FBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 1996 12:27:21 PDT." <2.2.32.19960820192721.008799ac@wallace.pinpt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:13:14 -0400 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -------- it's amazing how many times I have answered this question.... "Sean J. Schluntz" uttered with conviction: >How can you set up FBSD to send Alpha pages? I think the easist way would >be to set up the eMail Paging that I have seen (send eMail to a special >account and it gets forwarded to the pager) and have the system log the >messages you want passed on to the eMail account. There is a program called asap that is found at the SysAdmin Mag ftp site. It is in one of the monthly archive files.. you will need bash, perl and kermit. Get: ftp://ftp.mfi.com/pub/sysadmin/may96.tar.Z > But then how to you setup the eMail account to do that? easy an alias... mine look like: pbranson:"| /usr/local/bin/asap.pl" -branson -- ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?