I want to say thanks again. Actually the first thanks was for taking the time to read my question. This thank you is for pointing me in the right direction. I was terrified of the penguin. Now I am not sure that I really like penguins too much. I wish the school I am going to would offer another class.
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Chris Miller <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Kay947 > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi I need to write a shell script (in bash). > > I need the script to look in the system logs for faiiled attempts to > > login as the root user. Mail the results to the root user and create > > grep <some junk here> > > > a file in the /tmp directory which contains the line with actual > > string that was found in the log. This job should run every 15 > > /tmp is not guaranteed to persist after the process that created the > file ends. Realistically speaking anything in /tmp should be deleted > by programs once they exit, but obviously this isn't always the case. > > You should put something in /var/log for this sort of purpose. > > > minutes and the filename should be named results.DATETIME. With > > grep <somejunkhere> > /var/log/rootSpoof.`date -<some flag here>` > > Following which, just use sendmail or something to email yourself if > the filesize is greater than zero. Or better yet, output a date in a > single log file, appending the grep results to that file. Then if the > size of the file changes, send the email. > > There are tools to figure out file sizes, and the maths interpreter > (bc?) is quite capable from what I hear. > > Given a little footwork you can easily do this on your own. > Pedagogically speaking I've already given you far too much to work > with. :) > > > DATETIME being the current date and time. Any help would be greatly > > appreciated. Kay > > Don't give thanks in advance: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#courtesy > > -- > Registered Linux Addict #431495 > http://profile.xfire.com/mrstalinman | John 3:16! > http://www.fsdev.net/ | http://lordsauron.wordpress.com/ > Parents, Take Responsibility For Your Kids! http://www.whattheyplay.com/ > > > > > -- > Registered Linux Addict #431495 > For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! > http://www.fsdev.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
