RE: [cobalt-users] How to watch Mail POP's in real time??

["Jerry Farquhar" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's just the ticket..

There was another utility or command I had used that was similar.. but this
one looks to accomplish the same results and maybe even a little less
criptically.

Thanks!!

Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dan Kriwitsky
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 7:32 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] How to watch Mail POP's in real time??


> Can't recall how to do this but at one point someone had told
> me how to monitor accounts as they poped in to check for messages.
>
> Does any one know off hand that would share??
>
> FYI - I referring to watching from an SSH/Telnet connection
> or directly connected console connection.
>

As root:

tail -f /var/log/maillog

Comes in handy. Spotted some AOL luser trying to send spam every second
for a few minutes until I had to /sbin/route add -host 172.183.232.82
reject

--
Dan Kriwitsky

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