On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:46:19PM -0500, Bill Sawyer wrote: > I want to write some type of script that will run as a cron job every night > after the logs roll over. It will do the following (excuse the pseudocode, > it's the best way I can explain all of this). > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MAILFILE=mail.tmp > > Set $DATE with date +"%Y%m%d" > cp access_log.1 to $DATE.log > > echo "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (nobody)" > $MAILFILE > echo "To: $SENDER" >> $MAILFILE > echo "Subject: Log files: $DATE" >> $MAILFILE #where date is the variable; > excuse my horrible syntax if that doesn't work > echo "\n" >> $MAILFILE > > sendmail -t $SENDER < $MAILFILE and with $date.log attached > > I guess I need to do some perl work for this one. Help would be > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Bill
If the destination is ultimately another Linux system, then you might want to just look into running syslog to log on the destination server. Otherwise, I would suggest you look into logcheck. It generally only sends "interesting" logs, but could be configured to send everything. -- Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
