Jeff Jansen [email protected] Wed Jan 30 02:02:01 UTC 2008: > I'm running logcheck on a machine hosting a bunch of virtual machines using > vserver, so I'd like to expand shell wildcards in the "logcheck.logfiles" > file. So instead of entering > > /var/lib/vservers/v1/var/log/syslog > /var/lib/vservers/v2/var/log/syslog > /var/lib/vservers/v2/var/log/syslog > > I can enter > > /var/lib/vservers/*/var/log/syslog > > which gets expanded to the same thing as above. And this way as I add new > virtual machines, their logs get picked up automatically by logcheck. > > To that end I patched the logcheck script as follows > > --- logcheck.orig 2008-01-30 09:31:48.000000000 +0800 > +++ logcheck 2008-01-30 09:33:17.000000000 +0800 > @@ -665,7 +665,9 @@ > || error "Could not mkdir for log files" > if [ ! $LOGFILE ] && [ -r $LOGFILES_LIST ]; then > for file in $(egrep --text -v "(^#|^[[:space:]]*$)" $LOGFILES_LIST); do > - logoutput "$file" > + for line in $(ls -1 "$file"); do > + logoutput "$line" > + done > done > elif [ $LOGFILE ]; then > if [ -f $LOGFILE ] && [ -r $LOGFILE ]; then > > Anyone see any ways that this is going to come back to haunt me? It seems > to be working fine, but I've thought that before about "great" ideas I've > had, so... :-) > > TIA > > Jeff Jansen
I found this old mail and wanted to ask, if there is any plan to include this patch? I think there is also a little bug in the patch. It needs to be 'ls -1 $file' instead of 'ls -1 "$file"' elm _______________________________________________ Logcheck-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logcheck-devel
