On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Michael Mansour wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently in the process of starting to rationalise the amount of emails
> generated from servers.
>
> Currently, there are plenty of processes cron'ed from each server that
> generates multiple daily emails (Logwatch, etc) when processes are run.
>
> I'm thinking of configuring and scripting the servers to generate their
> nightly outputs to a file or directory, and then appending those outputs to a
> formatted web page so I can just check one web page each morning instead of
> receiving hundreds of emails per cron job.

A hundred emails or a single giant web page ?
Not clear that one is much better than the other.

If you ran a syslog server, all the logs could be in once place
so logwatch could summarize across machines.
It does, however, put your logs at the mercy of the network :-(

> Before I do this I was wondering how others handle this with their servers?

I'm afraid I just wade through the emails,
or choose which to ignore today.

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