OT: unathorized network user.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Yes, I'm able to do:
> 
> mail -s "msg-logs" bobgoodwin at wildblue.net < /var/spool/mail/root
> 
> and get a nicely formatted copy of that sent through my Thunderbird mail.
> 
> Setting up the Netgear router via the browser interface never sends 
> anything although I've set the server [numerically] and my e-mail 
> address as it requests when I click on "send log" it churns a bit, 
> clears the screen, but nothing is received, and the log data evaporates.
> 
> I guess the log data is stored internally in the router and I have no 
> direct access to it other than through the browser interface.
> 
> Bob Goodwin
> 
Unless you have changed the default configuration, Sendmail will 
only accept connections from 127.0.0.1, so mail from your router 
will be be rejected. On top of that, unless your hostname is 
wildblue.net, you need to let sendmail know that it should allow 
relaying from your router to your ISP, or accept it as local mail. 
You may want to look at the mail logs to see what is going on. The 
attempt should be logged.

I have a Netgear WGR614 that sends logs to my local e-mail address 
with no problems. I did have to use the IP address of my Linux box 
instead of the hostname. I have not tried having it send to my 
e-mail address at the ISP, because I almost never check that one. I 
can not have it sent to an infinity-ltd.com address because it has 
to relay through my ISP's mail server.

Then again, you have to do a lot of filtering of the log to extract 
the things of interest. I normally to not care to see the name of 
every site visited. (No kids here.)

Mikkel
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for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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