Hi everyone!

Does anyone have any ready-made scripts that can be cron-jobbed to:

1. Go through a site's directories.
2. Extract the content of error_logs within each directory.
3. Compile them all into one new one which can be emailed (for example).
4. Delete all the old ones.

We do have our own error_handling script, but PHP insists on recording certain errors in the directories in which they took place and going through all the directories manually and on a regular basis is just not realistic.

We have a script that can go through directories recursively, but steps 2 - 4 are the tricky part.

Many thanks!

Use redirection to concataate the files.

I.E
parts 3 & 4

cat $log >> main_log
rm $log

Which is a bare bones method to do what your after. It simply echo's each log into a main log and then deletes that log. Just make sure your main log is not in the same dir as the other ones.

Let us know

Ibbo

Ibbo...

Thanks for the contribution, but i have no idea what you're talking about, especially (what seems to be) a snippet of code.

Well you mentioned that you had a script that would trawl your web directories. (and that it does this part well)

So with you now trawling I assume you know what log files to look into.

Once you find that log file you can spit its contents out using the command cat. Apply some redirection to this >> (doubled for append) and you get

cat log >> /path/to/main/log

which is similar to echo this text file out to screen 'cat' but catch it '>>' and put it into that other file '/path/to/main/log'. Once thats done you can then rm (remove) log.

If you drop us in your script that trawls the dir's I can edit it for you and post it back. Would be easier I suppose than making assumptions and documenting them here.

Failing that it wont take long to put one together. I do assume that when your asking for cron job scripts that your on a Linux box?

Ibbo