Ned to send command output to email

Thaidog · 11-21-2009, 07:01 AM

I need to run the following command as a cron job that will email me every day:

for ip in `awk '/Invalid user/ {print $10}' /var/log/secure |sort -u`; do echo "$ip : "`grep -c $ip /var/log/secure`; done

Can somebody tell me a simple way to add that to a shell script?

bartonski · 11-21-2009, 09:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thaidog

I need to run the following command as a cron job that will email me every day:

for ip in `awk '/Invalid user/ {print $10}' /var/log/secure |sort -u`; do echo "$ip : "`grep -c $ip /var/log/secure`; done

Can somebody tell me a simple way to add that to a shell script?

Code:

for ip in `awk '/Invalid user/ {print $10}' /var/log/secure |sort -u`; do echo "$ip : "`grep -c $ip /var/log/secure` | mail user@host -s 'subject here'; done

This assumes that you have outbound email set up on your machine.

Thaidog · 11-21-2009, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bartonski

Code:

for ip in `awk '/Invalid user/ {print $10}' /var/log/secure |sort -u`; do echo "$ip : "`grep -c $ip /var/log/secure` | mail user@host -s 'subject here'; done

This assumes that you have outbound email set up on your machine.

Oh that's it? Thanks it's working!