[nycbug-talk] CLI mailing from FreeBSD 6.0 Release Question

[Mikel King]

On Mar 1, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Kevin Reiter wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm trying to script an automagic e-mail alert thingy, and it works
> except when actually sending the e-mail.  Here's the part of the  
> script
> that kicks off the e-mail:
>
> mutt -s "Home IP Update" alerts at unixfun.net < temp_ip.log
>
> I then check my e-mail, and nada.  When I check the current procs,  
> I see
> this (and it runs until I kill it):
>
> kevin at chronos$ ps wax | grep unixfun.net
> 78000  ??  Ss     0:00.00 sendmail: ./k2228Lt9077998 mx.unixfun.net.:
> user open (sendmail)
>
> When I check /var/log/maillog, I see this:
>
> Mar  1 22:01:29 chronos sm-mta[78102]: k221Q93t043799:
> to=<alerts at unixfun.net>, ctladdr=<kevin at chronos.unixfun.net>
> (1001/1001), delay=01:35:20, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,  
> pri=390508,
> relay=mx.unixfun.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out
> with mx.unixfun.net.
> Mar  1 22:01:29 chronos sm-mta[78102]: k221LZJc043754:
> to=<alerts at unixfun.net>, ctladdr=<kevin at chronos.unixfun.net>
> (1001/1001), delay=01:39:54, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,  
> pri=390508,
> relay=mx.unixfun.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out
> with mx.unixfun.net.
>
> I was originally using the built-in "mail" command:
>
> cat temp_ip.log | mail -v -s "Home IP Update" alerts at unixfun.net
>
> but that wasn't working either.
>
> This box is only running the standard (non-configured) sendmail.
>
> Is there a setting I need to configure somewhere for the outgoing mail
> server (using either mutt or mail)?
>
> Thanks,
> Kev

Hi Kevin,

	Here's some old silly shell scripting I used to use to do the same  
kind of thing. Basically automagickally send myself log snaps, config  
files, and just about any other message I needed using the page  
script. I used to keep a stack of canned messages for cetain types of  
events like server reboots or make world type ops that I'd use with  
the alarm script.

	I had planned on doing a bunch of other stuff with it but you know  
how spare time goes...;-) I haven't had the chance to test them under  
6.0 yet. If you do let me know.

ALARM:
#!/bin/bash
#
# $Id: alarm.sh,v 1.1 2000/09/08 20:06:52 mikel Exp $
#
# by: Mikel King  (mikel.king at upan.org)
#
# send a predefined message to someone
#
# This is a good utility to had laying around where you'd like a
# predefined set of circumstances initiate some sort of alarm. For
# instance on our system whenever it reboots it automatically lets
# someone know.
#
# Put the message you wish to send in the src directory and then use
# the following line in you trigger script:
#
# alarm msg 2>1 | /usr/sbin/sendmail mailid
#
#
#
# usage: alarm { msg file }
#
# There is a companion utility for use with alarm called: page
#

SRC="/usr/local/etc/msgs"
NOTE="Warning"

usage () {
     echo "usage: $0 <msgfile>" 1>&2
     exit 1
}

if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then
     usage
fi

if [ $# -eq 2 ] ; then
     SRC=$2

fi

if [ ! -f $SRC/$1 ] ; then
         echo "$1; file specified does not exist in default." 1>&2
         exit 1
else
         MSGFILE="$SRC/$1"

fi

if [ $# -eq 2 ] ; then
     NOTE=$MSGFILE

fi


host=`hostname`
echo "Subject: $NOTE from $HOSTNAME"
cat $MSGFILE


PAGE:
#!/bin/bash
#
# $Id: page.sh,v 1.1 2000/09/08 20:06:52 mikel Exp $
#
# by: Mikel King  (mikel.king at upan.org)
#
# This is companion front end utility for alarm. It can be used
# to circumvent the default behavior of alarm which is to send canned
# predefined system messages to a mailid.  This is the pinnacle of the
# reboot alarm pager messaging system.
#
# This implimentation let's you send a different text file
# to a mail id.
#
#       usage:          page mailid messagefile
#         OR
# circumvent mode:      page mailid filename [file path]
#
# The canned messagefiles reside in /usr/local/etc/msgs
#

SENDCMD=/usr/local/sbin/sendmail
FROM=Charlie.Root at ocsinternet.com
alarm $2 $3 2>&1 | ${SENDCMD} -F ${FROM} $1



Cheers,
Mikel King
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