syslog new entry

[Jannik]

Hey,
with dmesg you are can get all new entries with the '-' option.
dmesg -
Is there a utility that will do the same for syslog.log?

[Christian Gebhardt]

Hi

grep "pattern" /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

Chris

[Graham Cameron_1 · Accepted solution]

I replied to a similar thread recently...

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=317666

-- Graham

[Shahul]

Hi,

dmesg - will show the messages since tha last time it was run. I don't think such an option is valid for syslog.log, because it is updated continuously. The only thing you may choose is tail, grep, head..etc or a combination of these.

Or you can write a customized script and put it in cron to do this job.

Good luck
Shahul

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

hi,

You can use a script like this one :

#!/usr/bin/sh
FILE=$1
comm -23 $FILE $FILE.prev 2>&-
cp $FILE $FILE.prev

Each invocation will give you new lines added, but there is no standard option for doing it with syslog.

Regards.