Am 2006-01-05 11:27:15, schrieb celejar: > I'm looking for an application to do remote administration of my > Debian box > via email. The app should read mail (presumably authenticating via pgp > / gpg > keys) and execute commands contained therein. The box connects to the
+ cryption > internet intermittently to download mail, but does not have a > persistent > connection so I can't use ssh or webmin. I have googled but not I assum, you are downloading the E-Mails from your ISP using fetchmail. I am using procmail and __( '/home/michelle.konzack/.procmail/NET_tdcontrol' )________________ / | :0 | * ? test ! -f "`which tdcontrol`" | { | LOG="($TDPID) NET_tdcontrol : executable "tdcontrol" not found.$NL" | } | | :0 | * ^To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | * ? test ! -f "`which tdcontrol`" | { | LOG="($TDPID) NET_tdcontrol : pass$NL" | | :0 | * ^Subject:.*[tdcontrol] | { | :0 fw | |tdcontrol --decode | | :0 | .ADMIN.tdcontrol/ | } | | :0 | .ATTENTION.tdcontrol/ | } \______________________________________________________________________ Where my script 'tdcontrol' with the option "--decode" check for valid data and decode it. If there are several Messages with commands, then they will be queued. __( '/home/michelle.konzack/.tdcron/default' )________________________ / | SHELL=/bin/bash | PATH=/home/michelle.konzack/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | * * * * * tdcontrol --execute \______________________________________________________________________ this will run the "queue" while multiple instances are not allowed using a PID file. Have fun Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]