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gopher2
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 Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:26 pm Post subject: send file via email ? |
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I have a program running like this
program --log file.log
i monitor the log file for events via
tail -f file.log | grep event
how can i have my self emailed of these particular events
something like?
tail -f file.log | grep event > sendmail me@email.com ?
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ecroy
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think there is a solution as simple as that. You _might_ probably achieve it by doing some hackish trickery like:
| Code: | | while :; do tail -n1 -f file.log | grep -m1 "event" | sed "s/event/mailheader\nevent-description/" | sendmail your@email; done |
but apart from being error-prone it is also very ugly. The proper solution would be to get your program log to your system-logger of choice and use its e-mail alert capability. |
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think4urs11
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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you may want to take a look at net-analyzer/sec
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doctork
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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I've used things like this in the past:
| Code: | | tail -f file.log | grep event | mailx -s "An event message" target@somewhere.com |
This assumes that there's some MTA on the system capable of sending mail (sendmail).
EDIT: I can't say I've used it with a tail -f. That will require a bit of work to terminate the file being sent by mailx. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader 
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toralf
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| Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| doctork wrote: | I've used things like this in the past:
| Code: | | tail -f file.log | grep event | mailx -s "An event message" target@somewhere.com |
This assumes that there's some MTA on the system capable of sending mail (sendmail).
EDIT: I can't say I've used it with a tail -f. That will require a bit of work to terminate the file being sent by mailx. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader
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I'd bet that no mail is send as long as the tail command is running. |
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