[PLUG] Logs and Reporting ... Again

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> Try to run it (1pflogsumm) from the command line.  I'm assuming this is
> some kind of wrapper (shell, bash, etc.) around pflogsumm.pl so you should
> also check that ownership/permissions didn't get changed somehow/someway
> on either or both of them.

Rod,

   For a reason I cannot immediately determine, it no longer runs from the
command line. /etc/cron.daily/1pflogsumm is a shell script that references
/usr/local/bin/pflogsumm (a perl script without the .pl extension on the
file or referencing shell script).

   I updated the Date::Calc module to eliminate that as a reason for the
sudden failure of the script to run.

   Running '/usr/local/bin/pflogsumm -d yesterday -e /var/log/maillog.2'
works.

   I wonder if the reason is that the log rotation resulted in the numbers
being incorrect so the script's looking for a non-existent log file:

[rshepard at salmo ~]$ ll /var/log/maillog*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  216601 Mar 24 10:03 /var/log/maillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1219888 Mar 24 04:40 /var/log/maillog.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1029689 Mar 23 04:40 /var/log/maillog.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2700694 Mar 22 04:40 /var/log/maillog.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1168552 Mar 21 04:40 /var/log/maillog.4

Notice that both maillog and maillog.1 have today's date.

Rich

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