Hello,

I have created the following script. My purpose of this script is to "cat info from /var/log/messages then filter for the following keywords: ssh* and the current date. Once I gather this info I would then mail it to myself.

The problem I am running into...there is no data being cat'ed out. Hmm...Could someone look this over then let me know what I need to change?

Thanks in advance for your help!

-Xaviar

P.S.
I am running this script as root! :-)

# -- Bellow is the script --

#! /bin/bash

#-------------------------------------------------------------
# This scripts sends fail sshd attempts to root's mail account
#-------------------------------------------------------------

# Variables
#
DATE=`date +'%b %e'`

# Searching for the ssh info filtered by date and ssh*
#
cat /var/log/messages |grep ssh* |grep %DATE | mail -s "SSH Log-Failed Attempts" myemail@something.com

How about this...
cat /var/log/messages | grep -e ssh* | grep "$DATE"

Also you don't need the * after ssh

Try the line in the command line first before putting it into a script.

see what it gives
then

then the complete one

it worked!

Thanks for your help!

homey,

Why did I need to use quotes "" ? --> |grep "$DATE"
Do you know why single quotes '' or `` did not work?

Because the out put of DATE=`date +'%b %e'` has spaces in it.
You see that situation a lot in scripts to rename mp3 or jpg files.