New release logging suggestions

[Jonas Bardino]

Matt Doherty wrote:
> I would like to see some differant text in the log per email virus
> caught.. I grep the maillog to see how many viruses caught so far that
> week. For instance, I currently tried 'tail -2000 /var/log/maillog | grep >>>Virus' of course the ">" symbols something that messes grep up and wont work. The only string
> that works best is just use the word Virus ( tail -2000 /var/log/maillog
> | grep Virus ) Only thing is, it shows the mailscanner restarting every
> four hours lines as well as the viruses caught. I cant think of anything
> good but maybe some weird character that is never seen in the maillog
> such as a & or pipe symbol? Just something that grep could sniff out
> easily ONLY for caught viruses. Or do you have a better solution? The
> Email ID to go along with it as well would be nice. for ones that were
> scanned and ones that were found to be infected.
> Hope that is a ok suggestion..
> Oh well Im still a newbie anyways 8-)
>
>
> Matt Doherty

Hi Matt
Are you looking for something like:
'tail -2000 /var/log/maillog | grep ">>>Virus"' ?
(if you enclose the expression in doublequotes the ">"'s won't be
treated as redirects).

Regards, Jonas