New release logging suggestions

[Julian Field]

Try reading "man fgrep".
fgrep '>>>'
will do what you want.

At 21:33 09/09/2002, you 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
>IT Dept
>Datawatch Corp
>
> >>In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows and Gates?<<
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:14 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: New release logging suggestions
>
>The new release is getting there...
>
>What logging would people like to see?
>Anything particular that you want logged?
>
>Suggestions please.
>--
>Julian Field Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817 University of Southampton
>Southampton SO17 1BJ

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ
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