#!/usr/bin/perl # Author: Paul Slootman 2001/03/14 # Licence: GPL # Written for debian logcheck, basically duplicating the old compiled # logtail program's behaviour in perl so that the package isn't # architecture-dependent. my ($logfile, $offsetfile) = @ARGV; if (! -f $logfile) { print "File $logfile cannot be read.\n"; exit 66; } unless ($offsetfile) { # offsetfile not given, use .offset/$logfile in the same directory $offsetfile = $logfile . '.offset'; } unless (open(LOGFILE, $logfile)) { print "File $logfile cannot be read.\n"; exit 66; } my ($inode, $offset) = (0, 0); if (open(OFFSET, $offsetfile)) { $_ = ; unless (! defined $_) { chomp $_; $inode = $_; $_ = ; unless (! defined $_) { chomp $_; $offset = $_; } } } my ($ino, $size); unless ((undef,$ino,undef,undef,undef,undef,undef,$size) = stat $logfile) { print "Cannot get $logfile file size.\n", $logfile; exit 65; } if ($inode == $ino) { exit 0 if $offset == $size; # short cut if ($offset > $size) { $offset = 0; print "*** WARNING ***: Log file $logfile is smaller than last time checked!\n"; } } if ($inode != $ino || $offset > $size) { $offset = 0; } seek(LOGFILE, $offset, 0); print ; $size = tell LOGFILE; close LOGFILE; unless (open(OFFSET, ">$offsetfile")) { print "File $offsetfile cannot be created. Check your permissions.\n"; exit 73; } unless (chmod 0600, $offsetfile) { print "Cannot set permissions on file $offsetfile\n"; exit 65; } print OFFSET "$ino\n$size\n"; close OFFSET; exit 0;