Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:35:59 -0500 From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> To: "Murray's Listserv Account" <mgd@brutus.converging.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: how to clip&email last lines of log file Message-ID: <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIAEEABEGAA.doug@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20000821132811.A730@converging.net>
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> > I have written a .sh script and use cron to email a log file to > my email account > on a daily basis. I could easily delete the previous day's log account > before the current day's log is created but I wish to have a > historical account of the log. Alternatively, I could create two logs: > running and daily and delete the daily... But, I started thinking > about clipping the last lines of a log and emailing the last lines. > For example, the log entries for each day are only 6 lines each. How > do you clip lines from a file. The .sh scripts are run as root and > root uses the csh shell. I do not have the perl port installed. Is > there a shell script/command that would do the job? > Easy with tail, i.e., you want the last 5 lines from /var/log/messages... tail -5 /var/log/messages | mail me Regards, Doug > Reply-To: > -- > Murray Davis > Converging Technology Solutions > Edmonton, AB > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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