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Date:      Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:56:43 +1000
From:      BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   if then statement with grep
Message-ID:  <9131a6912c7d.912c7d9131a6@mbox.com.au>

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Hiya all,

This is probably a basic question for most of you, but I have been
struggling finding any answers.

I want to run a script from /etc/periodic/daily  that will search a log
file for a certain string and if if found it should send me an e-mail..
The logic should be as follows:

if `grep "expected line" /var/log/mylogfile` does NOT return something
then
mail -s "Alert" me@mycompany.com
otherwise don't bother me


Thank you all




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