Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (97 mails)

["Martin P. Peikert" <mp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Frank Krüger, concerning your mail sent on Sat, 16 Oct 1999 let me reply the following:
>Hi Kelvin, hi list,
>
>> Does anyone know how to get key system events emailed to you, such as
>> login attempts, anything that appears in /var/log/warn and the like ?
>
>I'm using a script called by cron with its essential line
>
>tail /var/log/warn | mail admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>or
>
>tail /var/log/warn | grep 'LOGIN' | mail admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>rgds.
>
>Frank

The same can be done by adding to your /etc/syslog.conf:
*.warn    admin@whereeveryouare

Regards, 

Martin
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