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Subject: Making a certain cron job
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Hello,

We use cronolog to rotate our apache log files so are log files look like so:

2003-09-07-error_log

Now, I want to make a cron job to mail the log to our webmaster every day but I
having terrible visualizing how to do it. If I do 'cat /var/log/http/2003-09-* |
mail -s log web@ourdomain.com' he'll get every log of the month not to mention next
month I'll have to edit the job. I know I'll need to use variables but I'm drawing a
blank. Please advise.

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Jason