fetchmail to get the mails from your imap account

Now, that you have set the RPi to send emails, lets do the next best thing. Setup fetchmail so that we can setup a cron job to run and get us the emails on Raspberry Pi. What can we do with these emails, lots 🙂 (I hope you already have a Raspberry Pi, if not then head over to  element14.)

For now, first install fetchmail:

sudo apt-get install fetchmail

and if you are one of the guys who wants easy configuration then :

Raspberry Pi automate certain tasks – script example

Now, if you have followed these :

fetchmail

ssmtp

Then you already have a working system for sending and receiving mail. Now, you can set the mda in the fetmailrc to a script which can do few things for you. The script below will get a page and mail it to you, if you have the subject as “get” and send “wake on LAN” to desired PC if you have subject as “wol”. Cool 🙂

Monitor your system with sysusage.

First some information on sysusage:

Description :
SysUsage continuously monitor your systems informations and generate
periodical graph reports using rrdtool or javascript jqplot library.
All reports are shown throught a web interface.

SysUsage grabs all system activities using Sar and system commands allowing
you to keep tracks of your computer or server activity during his life.
It is a great help for performance analysis and resources management. The
threshold notification can alarm you when the system capabilities are
reached by sending SMTP messages or throught Nagios reports.

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Apache server stats with small and useful bash script.

Just copy this script to your web-server cgi-bin directory and enjoy.

The script with show the common errors like 404 Error, Internal Server Error and others. It will show the User agent distribution using simple commands like grep, uniq, awk and so on.

You would need to change the tfile – which is temporary file and also the access.log path in the next line.

Just re-direct the output to some file with html extenstion. You could even put this in the cron which re-directs the output to some html in server document root.

sendmail or sending mail

If you want to use sendmail so that you can send all your mails from the local system to your email address, then you have to use sendmail.  Now, configuring sendmail has never been that easy and if you are working internally on your corporate network then for sending mails to the same domain, generally you don’t have to login. That being the case, you can use something simpler like “sstmp“. Install ssmtp with:

ssh reverse tunning..

If you want to access some local resources like the release website from the remote server when you are connecting to the remoter server using ssh over VPN, then possibly reverse ssh tunnelling is the best option. So, basically when you are connecting to the remote server, you tell the server your intent to do so and which local resource you want to connect to and on which port.So, here I want to connnet to google.com and tunnel the data to 192.168.131.921:9090 tthough the tunnel, then the command to use will be  ::

Allow incoming/outgoing ports on iptables

Last couple of years, I just used to disable iptables on my system, this time I decided not to disable it and keep it enabled.

So far so good, now comes the tricky part, I have http server enabled on my system and since this is on local network with already firewall and other security in place so I can allow all incoming to my system and similarly I need to enable XDMCP outgoing. So, I can add the rules like this :