need help with syslog

[llingf]

Hi everyone:

I need some help with sylog,
I'm currently using syslog on my system,
and I'm looking for a way to send e-mail alert from authlog
and error logs to my e-mail account each day. Does any one know how to do that? I know logdog can do it, but I have problem to configuring it to send me e-mail.

Thanks in advance.

Ling.

 

[Annihilannic]

You could use a cron job such as the following (all on one line):

[tt]59 23 * * * grep "^`date +'\%b \%e'`" /var/adm/messages | mail -s "messages log for `date +'\%b \%e'`" you@example.com[/tt]

What kind of problem are you having sending email from logdog?

Annihilannic.

 

[llingf]

hi Annihilannic:
Thanks for the reply. I ran your line into my cron job and
got e-mail back says grep: RE error 25: ``\digit'' out of range. I'm not very good at scripts, can you tell me what cause the error.

Thanks for helps.

ling

 

[Annihilannic]

That's strange... with cron you usually need to escape %'s, but it doesn't seem to work either way in this case.

Try putting these commands into a script instead. Make sure it is executable, and then run it from cron.

#!/bin/ksh

grep "^`date +'%b %e'`" /var/adm/messages | mail -s "messages log for `date +'%b %e'`" you@example.com

Annihilannic.

 

[llingf]

Hi Annihilannic:

Thanks for the help, It worked. I'm really appreciat it.

Ling