[syswatch-users] Adding additional Logs

[hawkeye <ha...@ha...>]

In my last post I mentioned what I did to add more logs to be proccessed
and displayed.  I did this this with my Apache access_log and the
error_log files.  This evening I noticed that when cron ran last night it
quit reading those 2 files.  I then decided to add a restart to cron so
the files can be read.

I created a file called apache_restart in /usr/local/sbin and added the
following:
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart

Then set permissions to:
chmod 750 /usr/local/sbin/apache_restart

I the created a file called apache_restart in /etc/cron.daily and added
the following:
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
/usr/local/sbin/apache_restart | mail -s "Apache Restart `/bin/hostname`
at `/bin/date '
+%H:%M/%m-%d-%Y'`" root

Then set permissions to
chmod 750 /usr/local/sbin/apache_restart

The above will run with cron daily and execute the script in
/usr/local/sbin.  It will the email the results to root.  The following is
what my email looked like:

Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:15:31 -0500
From: root <ro...@ha...>
To: ro...@ha...
Subject: Apache Restart hawkeye.dynhost.com at 21:15/11-27-2000

/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart: httpd restarted


###  If anyone has a better way of doing this please post back to the
list.  I am failry new at this so what you see here from me is just
tinkering for me to get things to run the way I want them to run.




David Price