Hey,

I dunno whether its possible or not but I would like to have all my error logs sent to my mobile phone. For example I want all my /var/log/messages "error" reports to be sent to my mobile as sms, or you can take another example of Bacula, I want all the failed backup reports to be sent to me as a sms.

Is there any software which I can integrate or any script or any application so something.

Yeah I do have a monitoring system in place but again I need to integrate the monitoring system to SMS server and I dunno know how to exactly do it.


Shed as much light on this as you can. I'm an noob with sms server and stuff so guide me to basic reading even pls.


Your help is appreciative.

Regards
Kk

Most cell phone companies have an address for each cell phone, where you can email a message, and it'll go to the phone via SMS. Something like "<phone number>@mms.att.net", or something like that. Might even be on your cell providers website, or something you can easily get from them via a quick phone call to support.

All you've got to do is set up a small script to send an email, to that address. You mention an SMS server, a monitoring system, and your Linux box...are they all the same, or different boxes? Something like
is a basic start. Look up some shell scripting tutorials, and the man pages for the mailx command. Once you get your error(s) parsed out, your script can then email out.

Thanks. Now that's helpful im gonna give a call to my mobile service provider and ask him the details.

I was wondering is there a way to setup my own SMS Server and integrate it?

There are SMS servers available for Linux, but unless you're really shoveling out LOTS of messages, it's not worth it. The Email interface is very easy to set up and use.