Individual Project

• Write a perl script that reads /var/adm/messages and extracts su root failure. Create a report that gives the timeframe for the report, writes out how many times each user failed in an attempt to su root, the dates for the attempts, etc. (Particular format is your choice). Have column headings that print out automatically at the top of each page of output. These headings should indicate the type of report.
• As an extra credit option, rework you perl script such that the user can enter both a string value (e.g., NFS) and a message file name (e.g., messages0) and again generate a report with headings.

  Use the /var/adm/messages on turing as a source file for you script. (In building your script you should copy /var/adm/messages to your local directory.)

  Last modified January 27, 1997 by mike@cs.hmc.edu