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dubing@gmail.com

2006-08-28, 1:43 pm

Hello,

We want our admins (both windows and unix) to be able to contribute to
the event log and all the admins should be able to see the log. One
idea I like is admins email about what has been done to some specific
email address (e.g. info@dept.some.edu), and the message will be posted
on the web as event log automatically. Maybe I need to write a
'some-home-made-script' on the mail server to publish the message on
the web when the message is sent to info@dept.some.edu.

info: "|/usr/local/bin/some-home-made-script"

Anybody has a working example script and would like to share? Any
other better ideas? Thanks in advance.

Bing

Tim Skirvin

2006-08-28, 1:43 pm

dubing@gmail.com writes:

> We want our admins (both windows and unix) to be able to contribute to
> the event log and all the admins should be able to see the log. One
> idea I like is admins email about what has been done to some specific
> email address (e.g. info@dept.some.edu), and the message will be posted
> on the web as event log automatically. Maybe I need to write a
> 'some-home-made-script' on the mail server to publish the message on
> the web when the message is sent to info@dept.some.edu.


> info: "|/usr/local/bin/some-home-made-script"


> Anybody has a working example script and would like to share? Any
> other better ideas? Thanks in advance.


Hypermail comes to mind.

- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@ks.uiuc.edu)
--
Theoretical and Computational http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/
Biophysics, Beckman Institute, UIUC Senior Systems Administrator
dubing@gmail.com

2006-08-28, 1:43 pm

Tim Skirvin wrote:
> Hypermail comes to mind.
>


Thanks, Tim. I've never thought of taking advantage of mailing list to
manage event logs. A quick look doesn't tell me how Hypermail is
different from other mailing list management software. We use mailman
already. What I want is simpler and I want the message to be displayed
right up in the front as shown below rather than being linked to as
mailing list archives do.

13:45:32 Aug 25, 2006 johns@dept.some.edu:
I've added www.some.com as a virtual host to httpd.conf file on
www.dept.some.edu.

15:00:02 Aug 28, 2006 kingm@dept.some.edu:
User quota has been raised from 200M to 1G.

Bing

Tim Skirvin

2006-08-28, 1:43 pm

dubing@gmail.com writes:

> Thanks, Tim. I've never thought of taking advantage of mailing list to
> manage event logs. A quick look doesn't tell me how Hypermail is
> different from other mailing list management software. We use mailman
> already.


Hypermail is more of a list post-processor, in my experience.
We've used it for $LONGTIME here, and it does the job pretty well. Low
volume lists get updated in real time; high-volume ones get updated
nightly.

It sounds like what you really want is a blog of some sort. I
don't have any experience installing any of them; those few times that
I've done something similar to what you're looking for, I've done it
through a (stock) Livejournal community with restricted access. It wasn't
meant to be very robust... but if I was looking for something more, I'd
probably look to set up the same source code on our local systems.

- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@ks.uiuc.edu)
--
Theoretical and Computational http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/
Biophysics, Beckman Institute, UIUC Senior Systems Administrator
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