Hi I would like to setup automated error email

rajini23 · 09-04-2012, 05:50 AM

I would like to setup automated error email notifications for any hardware + software +kernel errors in linux

How can I do it ?

Snark1994 · 09-04-2012, 06:20 AM

All I can think of is:

Code:

./program 2>/tmp/error_file; if [ -s /tmp/error_file ] ; then cat /tmp/error_file | sendmail youremail@yourserver.com ; rm /tmp/error_file ; fi

You'd have to maybe set up aliases or wrapper scripts for this. It doesn't seem a very sensible thing to do either, you're going to have your mailbox flooded with emails that mean little if nothing.

And of course, this only works for software. You can get smartd to send you emails if it detects problems on your hard drives, but I know of nothing that will work for kernel errors or other hardware errors..

rajini23 · 09-04-2012, 06:41 AM

Hi,
i wants to get the error logs from all the Linux machine to my Linux server in case any critical problem going to happen on that machine..

acid_kewpie · 09-04-2012, 06:43 AM

well there is no simple way to identify what an "error" is, they can be reported different by the apps as there's no real common framework past syslog, which many services don't use. I imagine you couldn't really define it yourself in specific terms.