Jesse Sunday wrote:
>
> Sort of off topic, I know...
>
> Someone please enlighten me as to how I would have a cron job scan my
> /var/log/maillog for a sting (or more)
>
> /usr/local/sbin/postfix check; egrep '(reject|warning|error|fatal|panic):'
> /var/log/maillog
>
> ^^ Is a cron job I have now... would it be similar???
>
> grep /var/log/maillog (words) | mail -s "Yack" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??? how
> would I do it???
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> Jesse
>
> PS I am not asking how to install cron jobs, just what string would I use...
Write a shell or perl script that does what you want, and run the script
from cron. It would seem to make alot more sense...
Mike
