From allen at ua.edu  Wed May  2 16:10:00 2012
From: allen at ua.edu (Beddingfield, Allen)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 11:10:00 -0500
Subject: [Tuxaloosa] Using a modem on a remote Linux server?
Message-ID: <4FA15C58.20505@ua.edu>

Hi All,
I was wondering if any of you have any ideas of how I can accomplish this:
I have a Linux VM that I would like to be able to use the modem on a 
Linux-based physical server to dial out for paging.  (Monitoring package 
running in the VM, and would like to come up with a scheme to allow it 
to use a modem across the network on a physical server to do paging).  I 
don't have the option of attaching a modem to the virtualization host.
Anyone ever done anything like this or have any ideas?  We can obviously 
just send an e-mail to the address for the pager, but it would be nice 
to have a method to call out with a dedicated phone line, in the event 
that the message being sent is an alert that the SMTP server is down :)


Thanks.
Allen B.

-- 
Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama


From leprkhn at gmail.com  Wed May  2 18:11:06 2012
From: leprkhn at gmail.com (Erik Hanson)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 13:11:06 -0500
Subject: [Tuxaloosa] Using a modem on a remote Linux server?
In-Reply-To: <4FA177C7.2000609@gmail.com>
References: <4FA15C58.20505@ua.edu>
	<4FA177C7.2000609@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAOEp0FcBjRmmHH5yGTgZp6y30FZ=96-Zih=6d0TKG6xJ16Kc5A@mail.gmail.com>

Wow... did anybody else get 8 copies of that response? I think Thunderbird
is acting wonky.
On May 2, 2012 1:07 PM, "leprkhn" <leprkhn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/2/2012 11:10 AM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I was wondering if any of you have any ideas of how I can accomplish
> this:
> > I have a Linux VM that I would like to be able to use the modem on a
> > Linux-based physical server to dial out for paging.  (Monitoring package
> > running in the VM, and would like to come up with a scheme to allow it
> > to use a modem across the network on a physical server to do paging).  I
> > don't have the option of attaching a modem to the virtualization host.
> > Anyone ever done anything like this or have any ideas?  We can obviously
> > just send an e-mail to the address for the pager, but it would be nice
> > to have a method to call out with a dedicated phone line, in the event
> > that the message being sent is an alert that the SMTP server is down :)
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Allen B.
> >
> First thought is, assuming you can control the modem from tty with
> minicom, wvdial, kermit or something, why not have a script on the vm
> that tags the hard server with a little ssh-fu? Access is through
> internal net only, yeah? Might be the easiest.
>
> Second thought? Remote serial port with getty accessing a ppp daemon on
> the hard box. Essentially making the hard box a pppoe server. The
> Internet seems to tell me this is possible, but I'm having to wade
> through more BSD documentation than I'd like. Sounds old school.
> Probably harder than you're looking for.
>
> And just for shits and giggles: Remotely access warvox with a
> meterpreter shell. http://warvox.org/install.html
>
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From leprkhn at gmail.com  Wed May  2 18:07:03 2012
From: leprkhn at gmail.com (leprkhn)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 13:07:03 -0500
Subject: [Tuxaloosa] Using a modem on a remote Linux server?
In-Reply-To: <4FA15C58.20505@ua.edu>
References: <4FA15C58.20505@ua.edu>
Message-ID: <4FA177C7.2000609@gmail.com>

On 5/2/2012 11:10 AM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> Hi All,
> I was wondering if any of you have any ideas of how I can accomplish this:
> I have a Linux VM that I would like to be able to use the modem on a
> Linux-based physical server to dial out for paging.  (Monitoring package
> running in the VM, and would like to come up with a scheme to allow it
> to use a modem across the network on a physical server to do paging).  I
> don't have the option of attaching a modem to the virtualization host.
> Anyone ever done anything like this or have any ideas?  We can obviously
> just send an e-mail to the address for the pager, but it would be nice
> to have a method to call out with a dedicated phone line, in the event
> that the message being sent is an alert that the SMTP server is down :)
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> Allen B.
> 
First thought is, assuming you can control the modem from tty with
minicom, wvdial, kermit or something, why not have a script on the vm
that tags the hard server with a little ssh-fu? Access is through
internal net only, yeah? Might be the easiest.

Second thought? Remote serial port with getty accessing a ppp daemon on
the hard box. Essentially making the hard box a pppoe server. The
Internet seems to tell me this is possible, but I'm having to wade
through more BSD documentation than I'd like. Sounds old school.
Probably harder than you're looking for.

And just for shits and giggles: Remotely access warvox with a
meterpreter shell. http://warvox.org/install.html

From terrorpup at gmail.com  Thu May 31 02:29:24 2012
From: terrorpup at gmail.com (Chuck Payne)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 22:29:24 -0400
Subject: [Tuxaloosa]  Just one week until the SouthEast LinuxFest!
Message-ID: <CAPfJb3q3YShXjS2HpgvbD9eJD2+9P6u1Z44tTy5kdjmRwKZ3ww@mail.gmail.com>

Just one week until the SouthEast LinuxFest!

There is just one more week until the SouthEast LinuxFest.   We have
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-- 
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