hi ya wyatt ??? what do you mean too by "good package".... - 1 minute of wrk to get it to do soemthing... - a couple days to test/configure/"understand" it??
in psuedo code... run it from cron... however often you want to check ping mail.your_domain.com if ( $error ) mail -s "mail died" you < /dev/null with expect or perl ??? telnet mail.your_domain.com 25 quit if ( $error ) mail -s "mail died" you < /dev/null if you are pokng around at user mail....geez... i wouldnt wanna be working there... though as a boss ... i'd like to know if people are working or surfing/searching the web.... c ya alvin http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Monitoring/ - for the "big" list of monitoring apps On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Greg Wiley wrote: > On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 5:33 AM, Wyatt Rowe - O.S.N. wrote: > > > > [...] please advise on a good package / solution to monitor > > and track a Mail / Internet server that runs on Debian 2.1. > > What do you mean by "monitor and track?" Do you want > an application or system monitor to assist with technical > operations? Do you want to read users' mail or apply > some heuristic to messages? Something else? Please > clarify. > > Best, > > -=greg > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >