I didn't know about logcheck, I think it will do exactly what I need. However I can't get it to send email either.
Nathan -----Original Message----- From: Alex Samad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:13 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sending Email from script On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:34:32AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:54:09PM -0400, Mace, Nathan wrote: > > I just installed Debian Etch (4.1.1) that I'm planning on using as a > > syslog server. I've got syslog-ng up and running just fine. And > > I've got a script that greps the logs nightly for error messages > > that I care about. The problem is I can't get the results of the > > script to be emailed to me. <script> | mail -e -s "Subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Why not use logcheck? > > Regards, > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sánchez > http://people.connexer.com/~roberto > http://www.connexer.com