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From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Subject: Re: bin/23415: /etc/security fails to show all relevant messages. 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/23415; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject: Re: bin/23415: /etc/security fails to show all relevant messages. 
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:24:01 +0000

 > >Number:         23415
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       /etc/security fails to show all relevant messages.
 [.....]
 > 	I think the catmsgs() function:
 > 		catmsgs() {
 > 		  [ -f $LOG/messages.0.gz ] && zcat $LOG/messages.0.gz
 > 		  [ -f $LOG/messages.0 ] && cat $LOG/messages.0
 > 		  [ -f $LOG/messages ] && cat $LOG/messages
 > 		}
 > 	maybe should do something like:
 > =
 
 > 		catmsgs() {
 > 		 find $LOG/ -name 'messages.*' -mtime -2 -print | =
 
 > 		    sort -r |
 > 		    xargs zcat -f
 > 		 [ -f $LOG/messages ] && cat $LOG/messages
 > 		}
 
 This could be sorted better - messages.10* would be out of place :o]
 
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 Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org=
 >
       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>                   <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org=
 >
 Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
 
 
 


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