[ale] SHELL: log files monitoring

[Ken Kennedy]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:14:23AM -0500, fgz wrote:
> 
> Related requests, although not specific to Oracle. I know
> these are not terribly difficult to write, but I'm stilll clumsy
> and slow with scripting.
> 
> I want to email out specific alerts from Solaris 2.6 and 8
> /var/adm/messages, but also filter out dupe messages. Seems
> I'd want to define what I want to grep out with variables,
> then output all the stuff to some txt file before emailing.

You really are talking about logcheck here. That's exactly what it
does. Already available packaged for Solaris 8 at
www.sunfreeware.com. It's also available at
http://www.psionic.com/products/logsentry.html for download (it's
under the GPL). LogSentry is logcheck...name changed.

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