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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help with script. Post 302350273 by taekwondo on Thursday 3rd of September 2009 09:56:35 AM
Old 09-03-2009
I'm getting there and I really appreciate everyone's help. Thank you all.

I tried Av's and Dan's code and they both worked. The last thing I tried was dan's awk statement, which produced this after a bit of tweaking.

**Unmatched Entries** unix_chkpwd[8788]: password check failed for user (henry)
**Unmatched Entries** unix_chkpwd[13474]: password check failed for user (henry)
**Unmatched Entries** unix_chkpwd[13474]: password check failed for user (henry)
**Unmatched Entries** unix_chkpwd[22256]: password check failed for user (henry)
**Unmatched Entries** unix_chkpwd[8788]: password check failed for user (henry)
**Unmatched Entries** unix_chkpwd[13474]: password check failed for user (henry)
**Unmatched Entries** unix_chkpwd[13474]: password check failed for user (henry)
**Unmatched Entries** unix_chkpwd[22256]: password check failed for user (henry)

which is very good. It seems like its looking for unmatched entries, I'm sure there's an easy way of looking for other items (multiple items) such as A or B or C. In my case it would be unmatched entries or Illegal users from? Thanks again, this has been great for me, I am finally learning how to script. Smilie

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I am sorry, can you please explain this further?

You might pass the log file in as an argument - so that it's not always checking the /var/spool/mail directory.

I don't know how to pass the log file in as an argument.

Thanks.

Quote:
Originally Posted by avronius
I haven't been able to figure out how to insert a variable into the search field, or I'd provide that example... Here's something that will return the line that matches your search string AND the line that follows immediately afterward.

Code:
#!/bin/sh

/usr/xpg4/bin/awk '/Illegal users/{_=2}_&&_--' /var/spool/mail/*
/usr/xpg4/bin/awk '/Unmatched Entries/{_=2}_&&_--' /var/spool/mail/*
/usr/xpg4/bin/awk '/Authentication Failures/{_=2}_&&_--' /var/spool/mail/*
/usr/xpg4/bin/awk '/Invalid Users/{_=2}_&&_--' /var/spool/mail/*

You might pass the log file in as an argument - so that it's not always checking the /var/spool/mail directory.

edit ----------
that should be {_=1}
 

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