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Re: Cron: daemon.log grep & mail to root



The TrinityOS document has many good ideas in it, including cron stuff -- it
is based on slackware, but you should be able to adapt parts of it without
too much trouble. :)

On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:03:33PM -0700, bwarsing wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm a newbie, but I need to set up cron to grep the auth attempts from /var/log/daemon.log and mail me (root) the results daily.  Can anyone suggest a means of doing this?  As it stands, it only logs weekly.  As well, if there is anyone who can point me to some good info on using cron effectively, I would appreciate it.
> Thanks,
> bw.

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