syslog-ng log alert email

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#1

I am using syslog-ng in my logserver - logs are collected in separate files for each server, all the files are rotated once a week. Is there any program I can use to send me an email warning end of every day for [kern.err] and [kern.warn]?

Thanks for any suggestions.

#2

How do you mean? Email you the contents of those files? Maybe a cron job?

#3

No, emailing the total log content would be too much information. I am looking for something that could send out an alert. I could write my own but wondering if there is something already available.

Thanks.

#4

So you want an email each day if there have been any log messages in those categories? Sounds like a job to do a grep then email would do what you want.

You could get syslog-ng to send those two categories to a socket destination and the listening process would make an email of any input, but that would be even more complicated.