logs

Anyone know how to script a cron job that will email logs on a weekly basis,
but still store them.

logrotate, rather annoyingly, uses email as a last resort only (at least as
far as I can see).
I want to rotate the logs on one schedule and email them on another. ie.
email whole week's log weekly, but still keep 8 weeks on the server.

Thanks in advance.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:29:01 +0100, Adrian Inman wrote:
> Anyone know how to script a cron job that will email logs on a weekly basis,
> but still store them.
>
> logrotate, rather annoyingly, uses email as a last resort only (at least as
> far as I can see).
> I want to rotate the logs on one schedule and email them on another. ie.
> email whole week's log weekly, but still keep 8 weeks on the server.

Please read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
This is not a networking question.

man cron
man crontab
man 5 crontab
man mail
man uuencode

Some light reading at http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html

Adrian Inman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Anyone know how to script a cron job that will email logs on a weekly basis,
> but still store them.

$ uuencode /path_to/log_file logfile | mail -s "logfile" (E-Mail Removed)

$ man -k cron

Good luck

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Sorry, but it kind of is, and the proper networking question I asked in
another post hasn't had any replies. Which is odd as this one has had two.


"Bit Twister" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:29:01 +0100, Adrian Inman wrote:
> > Anyone know how to script a cron job that will email logs on a weekly
basis,
> > but still store them.
> >
> > logrotate, rather annoyingly, uses email as a last resort only (at least
as
> > far as I can see).
> > I want to rotate the logs on one schedule and email them on another. ie.
> > email whole week's log weekly, but still keep 8 weeks on the server.
>
> Please read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> This is not a networking question.
>
> man cron
> man crontab
> man 5 crontab
> man mail
> man uuencode
>
> Some light reading at http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:04:19 +0100, Adrian Inman wrote:
> Thanks, but I think you meant 'strings' intead of uuencode.

No, the logs are ascii and are compressed.
The binary files should not be mailed. You uuencode them.

Adrian Inman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Thanks, but I think you meant 'strings' intead of uuencode. But anyway,
> thanks for the pointer.

Nope, I wrote uuencode, that's what you can use among others to
attach some file from CLI to a mail.

'strings' is something different, the logs are plain ASCII, you don't
need strings....

STRINGS(1) GNU Development Tools STRINGS(1)

NAME
strings - print the strings of printable characters in files.

BTW
Please stop top-posting, thx.

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