Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 01:07:57 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org> To: "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how to email logs files Message-ID: <00ba01c0daf5$55512d80$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <Pine.LNX.4.31L.02.0105121020100.26113-100000@linux2.gl.umbc.edu>
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> what is the easiest to have a log file such as /var/log/maillog emailed to > a specific email address daily? I know cron can do this but how would i > go about it in the crontab? hows about a script file that emails the log > to me and have cron run the script daily. Would this work? What kinda > syntax would be necessary for this? > The following is an extract from my notes about how I email ppp.log files Crontab To get a daily email of ppp.log, insert the following line in "/etc/crontab" 30 1 * * * root cat /var/log/ppp.log | mail -s "nightly" user@your_isp.com To get a weekly email etc etc 30 * 1 * * root cat /var/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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