Logging errors to Email

[Jeff Younker]

Gerrit Kitts writes:

	...
	The closest I have seen that I can set the
	logger to send it to a syslog facility, and
	then have to send that created log to the
	mail spool, like so
		...
	Which creates the messages in the file
	defined by syslog.conf.  However, is there a
	simpler way than moving this file every x
	minutes.  Something that would email an
	admin the second it recieved an error message?
	...

This is exactly what log monitoring tools such as swatch are intended to do.

ftp://ftp.stanford.edu/general/security-tools/swatch/


- Jeff Younker - jeff at mdli.com - These are my opinions, not MDL's -