log2mail page

log2mail is a daemon matching patterns in log files and sending mail if a match occurs.

log2mail can match many patterns in many files and support many options to control how mails are sent, including frequency, number of lines and a template to do the actual mail layout.

log2mail allows critical messages usually stored in log files to proptly get to the attention of the interested people, wherever they might be.

You can have a read at log2mail(8) manpage and log2mail.conf(5) manpage if you want to read some documentation before downloading.

New in 0.2.8

• New maxlines mode: if maxlines is set to 0, log2mail will send all the lines matching the pattern that appeared since the last mail was sent. In this way, all the matched log entries are sent by mail, but just once.

New in 0.2.7

• Added ChangeLog file
• Fixed a bug causing problems with EOF detection in config files in some architectures (arm, powerpc and s390)

New in 0.2.6

• Added NEWS file
• Read logfiles 512 bytes at a time instead of 1
• Log lines are not truncated and can be of any possible length
• Split upstream and debian version numbers

log2mail download

log2mail is available in this site as a .tar.gz source tarball and is included in the official Debian distributions (starting from version 3.0 "Woody").

Source download

Debian download

Author and copyright

log2mail has been written by Michael Krax and is now being primarily maintained by Enrico Zini.

License is GPL.