On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:24 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 12:54 PM 1/5/2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:27 -0500, celejar wrote: > > > I'm looking for an application to do remote administration of my > > > Debian box via email. The app should read mail (presumably > > > authenticating via pgp / gpg keys) and execute commands contained > > > therein. The box connects to the internet intermittently to download > > > mail, but does not have a persistent connection so I can't use ssh or > > > webmin. I have googled but not found anything. I suppose it would be > > > straightforward to do this with Perl or even shell scripting, but I > > > don't have much experience with either, and as I assume someone has > > > already done this, why reinvent the wheel? In addition to my > > > situation, such an application would also be useful for managing a > > > system from clients such as cell phones or email capable pagers. > > > >What is the mail agent on the receiving end? A "client" like > >Evo or KMail, or a process like fetchmail? Or an MTA that spools > >email, waiting for the connection? > > > >If it's a client, I'd say you're stuck, since only stupid MS > >products would execute commands in emails. > > Couldn't you write something which reads /var/mail/$userid?
That's presuming the mail handler puts mail in the mail spool, instead of POP (to be picked up by the MUA) or IMAP. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity." George Grenville, British prime minister -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
