Re: Cron: daemon.log grep mail to root
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:03:33PM -0700, bwarsing wrote: [Please wrap your lines at 80 columns and put a blank line between paragraphs - it makes your mail much more legible and easier to reply to] I'm a newbie, but I need to set up cron to grep the auth attempts from /var/log/daemon.log and mail me (root) the results daily. Can anyone suggest a means of doing this? As it stands, it only logs weekly. As well, if there is anyone who can point me to some good info on using cron effectively, I would appreciate it. The logcheck program contains a utility that does the appropriate magic and is pretty neat itself. Unfortunately it's not packaged (although someone said they would make a package just recently), I don't know the web site and the author has neglected to include it in the distribution. Searching on http://www.securityfocus.com/ will turn it up, though - look at free tools then intrusion detection IIRC. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpYFIFNIvRPF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Cron: daemon.log grep mail to root
Hi, I'm a newbie, butI need to set up cron to grep the auth attempts from /var/log/daemon.log and mail me (root) the results daily. Can anyone suggest a means of doing this? As it stands, it only logs weekly. As well, if there is anyone who can point me to some good info on using cron effectively, I would appreciate it. Thanks, bw.
Re: Cron: daemon.log grep mail to root
The TrinityOS document has many good ideas in it, including cron stuff -- it is based on slackware, but you should be able to adapt parts of it without too much trouble. :) On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:03:33PM -0700, bwarsing wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie, but I need to set up cron to grep the auth attempts from /var/log/daemon.log and mail me (root) the results daily. Can anyone suggest a means of doing this? As it stands, it only logs weekly. As well, if there is anyone who can point me to some good info on using cron effectively, I would appreciate it. Thanks, bw. -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
