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List:       redhat-devel
Subject:    Brainstorm... (fwd)
From:       Jeff Aitken <jaitken () dimension ! net>
Date:       1997-06-05 11:30:51
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I received the following message from a coworker.  I've got a set of
perl scripts that do exactly what you describe that I'm willing to
share, if you're interested.  


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Jeff Aitken
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----- Forwarded message from Robert Rowe -----

>From rrowe@winstar.com  Thu Jun  5 10:48:42 1997
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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 10:49:42 -0400
To: jaitken@winstar.com
From: Robert Rowe <rrowe@winstar.com>
Subject: Brainstorm...

You have probably already come up with something like this, but if you
haven't it sounds interesting.  This email is about Linux, but the idea is
good for any UNIX.

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>From: Kirk Bauer <kirk@kaybee.org>
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>I just had (what I think to be) a good idea.  I have written this script
>that is made for producing a daily report of /var/log/messages.  I thought
>of a way to make it much more expandable.
>
>How about this.  Make a /etc/daily-report.d/ directory.  In this directory,
>there would be files named 'sshd', 'PAM_pwdb', etc.  These filenames
>would correspond to the name of a certain daemon when it logs to syslog.
>
>For example, I have a main script (/etc/cron.daily/dailyscript).  What it
does
>is get the list of filenames in /etc/daily-report.d and it splits the entries
>from /var/log/messages for the proper date into one file per service.  Then,
>for each file in /etc/daily-report.d, it would execute that script with a
>paramter of the filename that contains the messages for that service.  Then,
>each script would do a basic thing like:
>
># Note, this one is very simple, it just ignore some messages that don't
matter
># and displays the rest... these scripts could be made to be very intricate
># (like some of mine in the current dailyscript)
>###################################
>#!/bin/bash
>if [ -x /usr/sbin/sshd ] ; then
>   echo ; echo
>   echo "SSHD Messages:" ; echo
>   # get rid of stupid messages and print the rest,
>   # indenting the messages properly for readability.
>   grep -v "stupid, worthless messages" $1 | sed 's/.*/   &/'
>fi
>###################################
>
>If something like this became standard, each program (sshd, PAM_pwdb, etc)
could
>install their own file in /etc/daily-report.d/ to provide meaningful daily
data
>to the sysadmin...
>
>Anybody else like this idea?
>
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>Kirk Bauer -- Georgia Tech -- kirk@kaybee.org <== Finger for PGP
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