Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 02:51:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To: river@theriver.nu (river)
Cc: cjclark@home.com ('cjclark@home.com'), questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: syslog and mailing logs
Message-ID: <199910030651.CAA06090@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <21DC5E98AE1FD311B1290020AFDB6C6E6460@DRIP> from river at "Oct 2, 1999 11:59:36 pm"
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river wrote,
> I.E in linux i can do the following with the log files:
>
>
> /var/log/messages {
> rotate 1
> size=10k
> mail user@company.com
> errors user@company.com
> postrotate
> /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd
> endscript
> }
>
>
> I need to be able to do this in BSD
Ahhh... From the looks of that config file, I would guess we are
talking about a Red Hat utility.
Ah, yes, logging onto a Red Hat system I have access to, I see that
this is the 'logrotate' command's config file.
The newsyslogd(8) command in FreeBSD does not have the built-in
capability to send logs as email, it would be quite easy to create a
shell script that does this for you. For example,
#!/bin/sh
#
# mailsyslog
# User(s) we wish to send log to
RECP=user@company.com
# Log file(s) we wish to send
LOGS=/var/log/messages
# Loop over the logs
for LOG in $LOGS; do
# We configured newsyslogd to create a <log>.0 file of what
# we want to mail. Check if this file exists.
if [ -f "$LOG".0 ]; then
# Send it
mail -s "$LOG at $HOST" $RECP < "$LOG".0
# Sent, delete it (we could compress it or something if we
# did not want to delete it).
rm "$LOG".0
fi
done
After you have put the script someplace like, /usr/local/libexec, you
edit the /etc/crontab file so it is run right after newsyslogd. Edit
the newsyslogd line like,
# rotate log files every hour, if necessary
0 * * * * root newsyslog; /usr/local/libexec/mailsyslog
That looks like it would do what you want.
OTOH, Red Hat's logrotate would likely run on a FreeBSD system...
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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