[aklug] Re: Help with regular expressions

From: <atftb2@alaska.net>
Date: Fri Oct 15 2010 - 12:07:21 AKDT

> Can someone point me to info on regular and extended expressions?
> I installed logcheck to monitor my server logs. I added appache logs to it
> and now logcheck sends me an email every hour. I need to add rules that weed
> out the junk. The rules are regular and extended expressions. I'm sure this
> will keep me busy for a while.
>
> I'm not sure I need logcheck but it would be nice to get an email when
> something bad happens. What ever that might be. I've also got logwatch. If
> logcheck is too much at least I can read the email from logwatch.

Look into logdigest (I think that was the name). Used to use it quite a bit - it
was stock on SUSE, maybe still is. It does exactly what you're looking for...

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