On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Wes wrote:
> I was wondering if it would be possilbe to set up a cron job to
>
> 1. email the messages, syslog and xferlog once a month to a seperate email
> either as an attachment or as the content of a email
0 0 * * * cat /var/adm/messages | mail -s "messages file" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> 2. Archive the previous months message. syslog and xferlog, something along
> the lines of having cron rename them to messages-7-99, etc. and start new
> log files
>
make a script like
#!/bin/sh
suffix=`date +%m-%Y`
newname=`echo /var/adm/messages-$suffix`
mv /var/adm/messages $newname
echo >/var/adm/messages
killall -HUP syslogd # to make syslogd reopen its files
Run this script with a cron entry
> 3. Have it delete the previous months log files.
see 2.
>
> Any advice or tips on where to look to start setting this up would be very
> helpfull
>
> Thanks
> Wes...
>
>
Frank
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