[rancid] Patch: Using logger instead of unattended logfiles

[Christian Hammers]

Hi

I like to get noticed in case of errors and don't like logfiles that
lay forgotten and unattended somewhere in a log/ directory so I piped
the output to logger which writes it to the syslog file which is
monitored by logcheck.

It would be nice if this would be configurable (or default).

bye,

-christian-


--- /home/ch/rancid-run 2006-05-22 11:27:47.419037711 +0200
+++ bin/rancid-run.in   2006-05-22 11:55:51.102623562 +0200
@@ -81,10 +81,6 @@
     exit 1
 fi

-if [ ! -d $LOGDIR ] ; then
-    mkdir $LOGDIR || (echo "Could not create log directory: $LOGDIR"; exit 1)
-fi
-
 for GROUP in $LIST_OF_GROUPS
 do

@@ -131,5 +127,5 @@

        echo
        echo ending: `date`
-    ) >$LOGDIR/$GROUP.`date +%Y%m%d.%H%M%S` 2>&1 
+    ) 2>&1 | grep -v '^$' | logger -p daemon.info -t "rancid/$GROUP"
 done



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