[syslog-ng]Sending a log line via e-mail

[Russell Adams]

When you resort to cron jobs to mail lines from log files, you may as
well use a log reporting utility.

I'd recommend Logmuncher, but LogSentry's still around somewhere, I've
heard good things about Swatch too.

Russell

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:35:42PM +0200, Stefan Schluppeck wrote:
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> Hi Andras,
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> I wirte the Loglines that have to be mailed to a own logfile and then
> put this line to your crontab
> 
> */1 * * * *     root test -s /var/log/logfile && \
> $(mail -s "Message from Logserver" emailuser@domain.de \
> < /var/log/logfile ; cat /dev/null > /var/log/logfile)
> 
> So every minute a email will be send if the File "/var/log/logfile" is
> greater than zero bytes, otherwise no email will be send.
> 
> And the other nice thing is, you can say cron only to look every 15
> minuts for the size of the file.
> 
> - --
> Mit freundlichen Gr??en / With regards
> 
> Stefan Schluppeck
> 
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> 
> Csehi Andras wrote:
> | 	Hi!
> |
> | I try it (based on the documentation), but it isn't working. The
> destination
> | line look like this:
> |
> | destination d_ups { program("mail -s UPSlog acsehi@qsoft.hu"); };
> |
> | the syslog-ng try to send the line(s), but the bsd mailer waits
> something. If I
> | try it in command line (with pipe-line), the command works perfectly.
> |
> | The environment: Debian 3.0r2, Kernel: 2.4.18, syslog-ng: 1.5.15.
> |
> | Sincerelly,
> | 					Andr?s, Csehi
> | Csehi Andr?s
> | acsehi@freemail.hu, acsehi@qsoft.hu
> | (1) 209-6651, (20) 410-5343
> |
> |
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