From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 12:36:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC4EA37B443 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:36:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00092; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:36:21 -0700 Message-ID: <39A184B4.3380DECD@urx.com> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:36:20 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Murray's Listserv Account" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to clip&email last lines of log file References: <20000821132811.A730@converging.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Murray's Listserv Account wrote: > > I have written a .sh script and use cron to email a log file to my email account > on a daily basis. I could easily delete the previous day's log account > before the current day's log is created but I wish to have a > historical account of the log. Alternatively, I could create two logs: > running and daily and delete the daily... But, I started thinking > about clipping the last lines of a log and emailing the last lines. > For example, the log entries for each day are only 6 lines each. How > do you clip lines from a file. The .sh scripts are run as root and > root uses the csh shell. I do not have the perl port installed. Is > there a shell script/command that would do the job? I immediately thought of tail. You can tail your log and tell it how many lines to look at (-n 6). I just redirected it to a file. Kent > > Reply-To: > -- > Murray Davis > Converging Technology Solutions > Edmonton, AB > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire. http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message