Adding new cronjob
Im still new to the linux world, so i just want to have my cronjob confirmed =)
What i need is to mail /var/log/messages /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron /var/log/secure Every saturday night @ 11 50 - 56Pm crontab -e 23 50 * * 6 cat /var/log/messages | mail my@email.dk 23 52 * * 6 cat /var/log/boot.log | mail my@email.dk 23 54 * * 6 cat /var/log/cron | mail my@email.dk 23 56 * * 6 cat /var/log/secure | mail my@email.dk Should be correct right ?? Thanks in advance.. Virtus. |
6=sat, 7=sun
Btw, if your logs grow large this is gonna be one hell of a mail! Also you could wrap these actions together with an intermediate script, save it outside one of the cron dirs, I use /etc/cron.scripts: Code:
#!/bin/sh ..another way is to let logrotate handle it, add a "prerotate" section to the file, for example messages: [/code] #/etc/logrotate.d/boot.log # add: prerotate cat /var/log/boot.log | mail -s "Boot.log $(date +%m%d%Y)" my@email.dk endscript # on with the usual stuff: size=50M yearly rotate 30000 [/code] |
Thanks alot unSpawn.
I get a few errors with your script thoug.. This is how far i gotten.. <snip sendlog.sh> f=cron.$(date +%m%d%Y).tgz # make a tarball tar -czf /tmp/${f} /var/log/messages # make attachment makemime -c -N "${f}" -o /tmp/${f}.msg /tmp/${f} # cat attachment cat /tmp/${f}.msg | mail -s "Logs $(date +%m%d%Y)" my@email.dk # remove crap rm -f /tmp/${f}.msg /tmp/${f} # exit w status of last action exit $? </snip sendlog.sh> Then i run a [root@ns1 cron.scripts]# ./sendlog.sh tar: Removing leading `/' from member names [root@ns1 cron.scripts]# Then i get a email with <email> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="cron.01212003.tgz" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 H4sIAIEVLT4AA+3U3UrDMBQH8F77FAe82HaTnaRpuwbEe19hiFQbZ3FtRtJu7u3NHLsponixyeD/ I9DSHM7JV7Ot/HztVvPWhlCtbEjOgCVzzpzw0fgplZQJF7lMFRey0DFe5ZlKiM8xmLEh9JUnSrxz /U9xv/VfqYeqIyWJtWEVG3VBUtiHeCRqkkILacjbwxL14uYUWxqlTKq/YruqtfWyyLJHQ+v4TsH6 rfXkOprsdjvx4trN0FsfqvVK1O8TmjaxZ/z1fmZIlplQuhSaRXabpZerpkfVUqMXl5vbeauN5qa1 kcVxj8NbPd1U7dPQNR+zZVkWZawb4i3QxIJuYztb06vzNMRh0OHw0/OepkNT3/HslFGyiU3xdxkl q3zxh5T//SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFyhTy8X47cAKAAA </email> Is this correct ?? i thoug it would attach a file with the zipped log so i could extract it.. ?!? Virtus. |
Naw, the output from tar is just a warning, devnull it.
Any decent MUA can save MIME attachments, should be no problem. |
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