Chris wrote:
When I get my nightly email from the "security run output" it normally has about the last 20 lines or less from the /var/log/messages. Is there a way to increase that to about the last 50 lines?
Thanks,
Chris
Hmm, I don't think that it's necessarily true that /etc/periodic is sending you the last 20 or so lines ... it's only sending "kernel" notifications, which in the case of most setups of syslog.conf, are *also* logged to /var/log/messages, hence some confusion here.
So, one good question in return would be, "are you sure that you're not seeing all you want in your periodic output?" You can take a look at the manpages and source for periodic(8) and friends to learn a little more...
I'm in no way an expert --- it could be possible that an expert could modify the periodic.sh script to do what you want; but in your case, I'd think that you could create a small script to do what you want and run it nightly from your personal crontab. Something like what's below.
HTH,
Kevin Kinsey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #/bin/sh # mailmessages.sh --- mail yesterday's /var/log/messages output to root...
yday=`date -v -1d "+%b %d"`
grep "$yday" /var/log/messages | mail -s "Contents of /var/log/messages" root _______________________________________________
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