Amanda-Users

Re: Getting AMANDA stats without e-mail

2003-11-06 17:55:25
Subject: Re: Getting AMANDA stats without e-mail
From: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
To: Bob Zahn <bzahn AT zeus.okccc DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 17:52:24 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 at 4:51pm, Bob Zahn wrote

> I've been told that I can not run sendmail or any mail system on the Sun 
> Solaris server that I run the Amanda server on. Does anyone know how I 
> can get the reports that I have normally sent to root's e-mail system 
> some other way? Is their an option to getting the e-mails like in a 
> report file? I know that I can put another e-mail address in the 
> amanda.conf file. But, without sendmail running on my solaris system I 
> have no way of sending it to another e-mail system. I think the e-mail 
> will just hang in the mqueue folder until I delete it. Thanks.

You can use amreport to generate the email and report and place it in a 
file.  'man amreport' for the exact syntax.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University