You're getting the return value of tee, not the return value of your script.
If you want to watch the logfile while it's generated without using tee, you can do
Depending on your shell you might also get the exit status of other things in the pipe chain with ${PIPESTATUS[0]} etc
Hello:
I'm having the following problem when I try to log in to our Tru64 system, from any machine using root or any other user.
After entering the passowrd I get the following message:
and not being directed to the shell console.
I think it has something to do with the audit process... (2 Replies)
I want to transfer files from ABC server to XYZ server in which i am successful. I would like to create a log file also by the name of current date. For some reason my script gives me an error on my scp -p command and it says LOCAL_LOG_FILE: not found and REMOTE_LOG_FILE not found. Any clues whats... (9 Replies)
Dear all
I am facing a problem that I cannot able to login through 192.168.11.6. I even unplumb it and then plumb it again also, but still facing a problem. Could anyone tell me that what is the meaning of "inet 192.168.11.6 --> 192.168.11.6". I even restart the server two time also ,but still... (7 Replies)
Hi all..
The following set of statements is used in a shell script to ftp a file to a remote machine
I want to redirect the ftp messages thrown by the first ftp statement to a log file. As you can see there is a logic downstream to decide if the ftp was a success or not. But i am not... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem with my logfile. I am redirecting my output to log file and when iam viewing as text doc it is looking with some nonsense characters...please do help me on this .thank you.
here is my logfile which it is showing different behaviour:
spawn
spawn minicom
Welcome... (6 Replies)
Hi
I have a requirement to write a script to capture all errors in a Logfile and send the file in email.
If there is any error occurred the subject of email will be ERROR , If there are no error occurred the subject of email will be SUCCESS.
So I created a Log file and put the Appropriate... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am in trouble ... again :wall:
I formating a log file as .txt from Unix (solaris 9) and then I compress it with gzip and I use uuencode and send it in an email.
gzip -c ${fic_report} | uuencode Report_File.gz > ${attachment_file}
my problem is when I received the mail with the... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have a log file that i'd like to monitor for a string. Now the log file rolls over everytime the server is restarted, so i'm doing a reverse list and then reading the latest log file.
So for the code, the log file is 'test1.txt'.
I check for the string and pipe to black hole (>... (2 Replies)
I need to create shell script (check system ) to display the output to the console and write these output to a log file at the same time.
My shell script is like that
Main() {
....
....
}
MainIt takes about 30s to display all the output to the console.
Then I put this command to the... (4 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
logtail
LOGTAIL(8) logtail manual LOGTAIL(8)NAME
logtail - print log file lines that have not been read
SYNOPSIS
logtail [-t] -flogfile [-ooffsetfile]
DESCRIPTION
logtail reads a specified file (usually a log file) and writes to the standard output that part of it which has not been read by previous
runs of logtail. It prints the appropriate number of bytes from the end of logfile, assuming that all changes that are made to it are to
add new characters to it.
logfile must be a plain file. A symlink is not allowed.
logtail stores the information about how much of it has already been read in a separate file called offsetfile. offsetfile can be omitted.
If omitted, the file named logfile.offset in the same directory which contains logfile is used by default.
If offsetfile is not empty, the inode of logfile is checked. If the inode is changed, logtail simply prints the entire file. If the inode
is not changed but logfile is shorter than it was at the last run of logtail, it writes a warning message to the standard output.
OPTIONS -f logfile to be read after offset
-o offsetfile stores offset of previous run
-t test mode - do not change offset in offsetfile
RETURN VALUES
0 successful
65 cannot get the size of logfile
66 logfile does not exist, is not a plain file, or is not readable
73 cannot write offsetfile
AUTHOR
The original logtail was written in C by Craig H. Rowland <crowland@psionic.com>. This version of logtail is a Perl reimplementation by
Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>. Enhanced by the Debian Logcheck Team <logcheck-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>.
This manual was written by Oohara Yuuma <oohara@libra.interq.or.jp>.
SEE ALSO logcheck(8)Debian Fri, 19 Nov 2004 LOGTAIL(8)