How to send a syslog message by E-mail?

Hi all,

I would like to send a syslog msg by e-mail instead of just logging
msg to system. Does linux has any e-mail alert package? Should I
modify syslogd to support SMTP to do so or any other way to achieve
the goal?

Thanks for your comments.
Nick Wu.

Nick Wu <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I would like to send a syslog msg by e-mail instead of just logging
> msg to system.

I suggest you have a look at the swatch program. It should be able to do
things like that for you.

You can also send all log messages that match a given facility and
priority to a command, such as mail. See syslogd and syslog.conf manual
pages for more information.

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On 1 Feb 2004 17:58:16 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) (Nick Wu) wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I would like to send a syslog msg by e-mail instead of just logging
>msg to system. Does linux has any e-mail alert package? Should I
>modify syslogd to support SMTP to do so or any other way to achieve
>the goal?
>
>Thanks for your comments.
>Nick Wu.

How about both? You might want to take a look at logwatch. I think it
should do all you want.

http://www.logwatch.org

What distro do you have? I know it comes with recent Red Hat.

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On 2004-02-02, Nick Wu <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> I would like to send a syslog msg by e-mail instead of just logging
> msg to system. Does linux has any e-mail alert package? Should I
> modify syslogd to support SMTP to do so or any other way to achieve
> the goal?

It's probably easier to use a named pipe; set the appropriate config in
syslogd.conf, and use some sort of crontab to read from the pipe and
create an appropriate message from what it reads.

- --keith

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