errreporter - Mails interesting entries in the AIX error log
errreporter [-h | -u]
errreporter [-l]
errreporter -f conffile
errreporter monitors the AIX error log, checks if new error entries
are listed in a configurable ``ignore'' list, and e-mails the error in
detailed format to a specified address.
-head1 OPTIONS
- -h | -u
-
Execs ``perldoc'' on the errreporter program, displaying this documentation.
- -l
-
Execs ``errpt -t'', which displays the error template summaries. This is useful
when creating the ``ignore'' list of errors that you don't want to receive e-mail for.
- -f conffile
-
Uses the specified file as the configuration file. If this flag is not specified,
errreporter will first look for ``/etc/errreporter.conf'', and then ``/usr/local/etc/errreporter.conf'', and failing that, will die.
errreporter uses a configuration file for the setting of two options: the e-mail
address to mail errors to, and the list of errors that should be ignored. Because
the configuration file is ``sourced'' by the errreporter program, it must follow
proper perl syntax. The two options are:
- $email = ``you\@your.address'';
-
Set the variable $email to the the email address that will receive the error log
entries. Don't forget to backslash the at-sign, and end the line with a semi-colon.
- @ignore = (``IDENTIFIER1'', ``IDENTIFIER2'', ...);
-
Set the array variable @ignore to a comma-separated quoted list of error identifiers
that errreporter should not send mail for.
Sandor W. Sklar <ssklar@stanford.edu>