Script to daily email APF status
You are running APF on your server, but sometimes you think “is APF running fine ?”
This script sends you an email with APF satus.
Log in to your server as root
Create the script:
nano apfstatus.sh
Put this on the file:
#!/bin/bash
tail -200 /var/log/apf_log | mail -s "APF Status" youemail@domain.com
Save and Exit
Ctrl+X and Y
Make it executable:
chmod 755 apfstatus.sh
Move it to “/etc/cron.daily” folder:
mv apfstatus.sh /etc/cron.daily
You will receive now a daily email with APF status.