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Old 11-22-2006, 02:31 AM
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Hi all, i need help with a shell script that opens log files and checks for anomalies or faults.
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Use simple grep and redirection. For example find all occurance of error and store to /tmp/error.log file
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grep -i 'error' /var/log/message > /tmp/error.log
Rest of the implementation is depend upon what you would like to write.. let us know the details.
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