On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:58:57AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Currently at my university we have 50 servers in our physics lab, and > I am forwarding all syslog messages to 1 server. Is it possible to > email me an alert once a particular alert occurs? Instead of > constantly parsing the log file, I would like something a big more > realtime.
Look into rsyslogd or syslog-ng . Both can define custom actions according to filters, IIRC. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]