Re: syslog and email
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.
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