On 3/4/08, vivek khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Agnello George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > HI > > > > I have a small query !! I need to write a script whenever there is an > > error generated in the spamd.log or any general log file to send me a > > mail only once, the bellow script is what i came u with but i doubt it > > would work. > > > > if [ $(grep -e "unable to start service" /var/log/spamd.log) = 1 ] ; > then > > mail -s " pls check server IP 203.185.XXX>XXX" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > fi > > You are almost there. For synchronous emailing you will need to un the > script as a daemon. Have a look at this blog post for more details > > > http://www.johnandcailin.com/blog/john/how-setup-real-time-email-notification-critical-syslog-events
I finally came up with my own script to do this #!/bin/sh -x if [ $(tac /var/log |grep -e "error: syswrite()" | wc -l ) = 0 ] ; then exit 1 else echo "your mailserver is down" |mail -s " pls check server ip 216.185.xxx.xxx " [EMAIL PROTECTED] fi then i add a crontab to run for ever 10 min crontab -e 10 * * * * /your/location/of/script if there is an easier way.... kindly tell me !!! Thanks for all the help -- > Regards > Agnello Dsouza > www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com > www.bible-study-india.blogspot.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
