topic syslog.conf syntax for email... in Operating System - HP-UX

syslog.conf syntax for email...

Sally Devine — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 18:32:28 GMT

Hello,

I would like to setup my syslog.conf to email me when there are any critical errors (like one of the mirrored disks dies, etc). I am just not sure of the syntax.

Thank you,
Sally

Re: syslog.conf syntax for email...

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 18:38:57 GMT

Hi Sally,

You cand configure a cron job to grep a error message in the log file. If it finds that it will email a notification to the user/admin.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: syslog.conf syntax for email...

Sally Devine — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 18:41:14 GMT

Yes, I was thinking of that if there was no way of just emailing *.err *.crit etc to an email address.

Re: syslog.conf syntax for email...

Mark Greene_1 — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 18:41:21 GMT

add this line to /etc/syslog.conf and then hup syslogd:

*.crit root,user1,user2

where user1 and user2 are login ID's you want the e-mail to go to. You can add as many or few as you want. You may be able to reference an alias that has been setup for a remote e-mail address in /etc/mail/aliases (i.e., your outlook or groupwise e-mail address), but I've not tried this on HP-UX so I cannot say for sure if it will work.

HTH
mark

Re: syslog.conf syntax for email...

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 18:43:04 GMT

Hi Sally:

Have a look at the man pages (1M) for 'syslogd'. Use the tab key (character) to separate the fields in /etc/syslog.conf below:

*.crit root

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: syslog.conf syntax for email...

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 03 Jan 2002 18:51:19 GMT

Hi Sally,

You can also modify the /etc/syslog.conf file to forward the type of alert you want to moify to a userid / alias on the system and then configure the /etc/mail/aliases to forward the mail for the user/alias on the system to your email address. Also do a "man syslogd" to find more info on how to configure the /etc/syslog.conf file.

Hope this helps.

Regds