[SOLVED] Cron and maillog

marciano · 01-06-2015, 10:17 AM

In Centos 5 rotated files were named as maillog.1 maillog.2, etc
Now in Centos 6 I see they are named as maillog-20150104, adding the date they were created
I have a cron job that sends me a weekly report of mail server.

Code:

perl /usr/local/pflogsumm/pflogsumm.pl /var/log/maillog.1 2>&1 |/bin/mailx -s "Last week email report" root

which, obviously sends an error: maillog.1 does not exist.

How can I change that code to analyze the last rotated mail log file?
Thank you

marciano · 01-06-2015, 12:40 PM

I created an executable file under /etc/cron.weekly (Sunday is the day when maillog rotates)

#!/bin/bash
DATE='maillog-'$(date +"%Y%m%d" -d "last Sunday")

perl /usr/local/pflogsumm/pflogsumm.pl /var/log/$DATE 2>&1 |/bin/mailx -s "......" root