[syslog-ng]sending message by email

[Ohrberg, Mick]

Another method is to create a script called for instance syslog-ng-mail.sh,
containing

#!/bin/sh
while read line; do
        echo $line | /usr/bin/mailx -s "$1" $2
done

...and then pipe all your matched messages to this script with two arguments
of the subject and email address to send to. This makes it very generic. 

	/Mick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen C Burns [mailto:sburns@farpointer.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:31 AM
> To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng]sending message by email
> 
> 
> 
> Assuming you have a comprehensive file with all of the messages in 
> /var/log/$HOST/messages, just set up a nightly cron job to cat 
> /var/log/$HOST/messages|mail your email
> 
> At 09:47 AM 2/1/2002, you wrote:
> >I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to setup email 
> notification of certain 
> >log messages. The filters I am using are working great, but my email 
> >notifications are empty.
> >What I would like is to receive an email with a subject line 
> similar to 
> >"Log notification for hostname" where hostname is the system 
> the message 
> >was received from, with the body of the email containing the 
> log message.
> >Is anyone else doing this? Can you provide an example of 
> your method, if so?
> >Or, can anyone give me any pointers on making this work?
> >
> >---
> >David Monk CCNA, MCSE
> ><mailto:david@purplebear.net>david@purplebear.net
> >
> >The more things change, the more they stay insane.
> 
> 
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