I like to monitor my mail servers with postfix-logwatch which is a great tool to tell what was happening on you’re server. And because I don’t wanna miss anything I added the following line to my crontab to mail me an update every night around 4 in the morning.
0 4 * * * root /usr/bin/zcat /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 | /usr/local/bin/postfix-logwatch | mail -s "Mailserver log summary for: `hostname`" sysadmin@example.com |
All of this in actually in one line in my cronfile but it does not fit the page :). If you don’t compress you’re logs. remove bz2 and use cat instead of zcat.
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