redhat-logviewer and CommuniGate Pro

From: Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI (g3vki_at_turner-smith.co.uk)
Date: 09/15/05

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    The CommuniGate Pro mail server log file name is derived from today's
    date. For example, today's log is named '2005-09-15.log'
    For redhat-logviewer to show this log it is necessary to edit
    redhat-logviewer.conf on a daily basis. It must be possible to automate
    this change, but I'm stuck as to how to go about it.
    I've written a shell script which converts today's date into the string
    '/var/CommuniGate/SystemLogs/2005-09-15.log' and stores it in 'LogDate'.
    The next line of the script 'echo $LogDate > MailTodayLog' creates a
    file called MailTodayLog with the LogDate string, but if I just put the
    location of this file into redhat-logviewer.conf the viewer displays the
    contents of LogDate and not today's log. Nearly there, but not quite.
    I also tried adding the script line 'export LogDate', but that only
    seems to export to a child process and not back to a parent.
    Is there a means of converting a local variable to a global, or is there
    simply some better way of doing what I want?
    I'm running Red Hat Linux 8 on an old P200. Any advice would be greatly
    appreciated.
    Thanks in advance. 

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