Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu> wrote:
[snipped sendmail approach]
Yes, that's a possibility, indeed, but that assumes one has a sendmail command installed.
For those crazy enough to run syslog-ng on a non-sendmail environment, there are alternatives:
Sadly, that does not run on my router.
My 4MB NAND router has a sendmail binary and nullmailer is also readily available. I am refering to the wrapper that does mail submission into the local queue. http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html#sendmail I would not suggest for a moment someone runs the actual full sendmail mail routing server. :)
* Tighter integration with syslog-ng allows for easier troubleshooting: one only has to look at one place
It does not answer "where did my email alert go?" Did syslog eat it? Did the smarthost toast it? Was it lost further upstream?
Of course it does not make me able to troubleshoot issues beyond the box itself, but it does make it easier to see whether the message left the system at all, as I only have to look at syslog-ng's debug output, and don't have to hunt down wherever sendmail logged to.
It logs where all your existing mail server logs go to. Just sayin' Cheers -- Alexander Clouter .sigmonster says: Shipping not included.