[SOLVED] How to send log files to a particular e-mail address?

Nikhil_Lagwankar · 12-22-2013, 04:16 AM

hi,

i'm using CentOS 6.4[Final].

Suppose i have a tool which generates a log file of the system after every 24 hours.

How do i send the log file to a particular email address.

I basically wish to automate this process so that i can view these logs via e-mail.

Do i need to install mail servers?? What else do i need to do here?

Thanks in advance...

colucix · 12-22-2013, 05:03 AM

CentOS and many other distribution have a mail server already installed, since some processes use mail to send messages to the system administrator or to the crontab owners. Therefore you can simply do something like:

Code:

(
 echo "From: Sender <sender@domain>"
 echo "To: Recipient <recipient@domain>"
 echo "Subject: This is log of today $(date)"
 cat file.log
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail "recipient@domain"

If you prefer to send the log as attachment, you can try mutt or uuenview. Example:

Code:

/usr/bin/uuenview -m "recipient@domain" -f "sender@domain" -s "This is log of today $(date)" -a file.log <<-EOF
	Log in attachment.
	
	Greetings,
	Me
	
	EOF

The uuenview command is provided by the uudeview package.

fuorviato · 12-22-2013, 05:03 AM

Have a look here

unSpawn · 12-22-2013, 05:10 AM

...additionally human users usually do not have the time or the attention span to wade through loads of log files, let alone do that in a disciplined way regularly. So Logwatch probably is easiest for parsing logs and mailing a report.