On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Michael Mansour wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently in the process of starting to rationalise the amount of emails
generated from servers.
Currently, there are plenty of processes cron'ed from each server that
generates multiple daily emails (Logwatch, etc) when processes are run.
I'm thinking of configuring and scripting the servers to generate their
nightly outputs to a file or directory, and then appending those outputs to a
formatted web page so I can just check one web page each morning instead of
receiving hundreds of emails per cron job.
A hundred emails or a single giant web page ?
Not clear that one is much better than the other.
If you ran a syslog server, all the logs could be in once place
so logwatch could summarize across machines.
It does, however, put your logs at the mercy of the network :-(
Before I do this I was wondering how others handle this with their servers?
I'm afraid I just wade through the emails,
or choose which to ignore today.
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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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