05-05-2004
I think that your problem is that you are using find to grep on the ./logs directory itself and not just on the files in that directory. You need to restrict the find to only grep within plain files.
Lets test this theory, using some test files...
$ mkdir logs
$ echo 'Process Complete' > logs/log1
$ echo 'otherwise' > logs/log2
...first find files that do contain the string...
$ find ./logs -size +1c -exec grep -q 'Process Complete' {} \; -print
./logs/log1
...as expected. Now find files that do NOT contain the string...
$ find ./logs -size +1c ! -exec grep -q 'Process Complete' {} \; -print
./logs
./logs/log2
...woah! What's that "./logs" thing doing there?! If I was using "-exec ls -l {} \;" then it would return every file in the directory! Better restrict the find to plain files...
$ find ./logs -type f -size +1c ! -exec grep -q 'Process Complete' {} \; -print
./logs/log2
...OK!
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
grablogs.conf
grablogs.conf(4) File Formats grablogs.conf(4)
NAME
grablogs.conf - grablogs configuration for libgrablogs.so of the plugins of
gnome-system-log file
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/grablogs.conf
DESCRIPTION
The libgrablogs.so is a plugin for gnome-system-log(1), it colloct the log files from the system as many as possible. grablogs.conf is a
configuration file that contains a set of lines mixed with sh(1) syntax codes and individual
log files. libgrablogs.so will read the file try to get a log files list for
gnome-system-log(1). Users can copy the file into $HOME/.gnome2/gnome-system-log/plugins/`uname -p` to overwrite the system default one.
The grablogs.conf file contains the following configuration categories:
[configs]
Each line under this category is interpreted as a config file of System. The plugin will open the config file and try to find
all system paths of the logs.
[commands]
Each line under this category is interpreted as a shell command and will be execute through a pipe. And each line of the out-
put of the command will be interpreted as a log path.
[logs] Each line under this category is interpreted as a log path.
FILES
/usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/grablogs.conf
The system default configuration file for the plugin libgrablogs.so
$HOME/.gnome2/gnome-system-log/plugins/`uname -p`/grablogs.conf
The user specific configuration file for the plugin libgrablogs.so
EMAMPLE
[configs]
/etc/syslog.conf
[commands]
for i in `svcs -aH -o FMRI | grep -v lrc `; do svcprop -p restarter/logfile $i 2>/dev/null || svcprop -q -p restarter/alt_logfile $i
2>/dev/null ; done
[logs]
/var/log/messages
/var/log/secure
/var/log/maillog
/var/log/cron
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
/var/log/XFree86.0.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/cups/error_log
SEE ALSO
gnome-system-log(1), pipelog.conf(1)
gnome-utils 2.16.0 13 Oct 2006 grablogs.conf(4)