Cron script to email apache/nginx daily error logs

mail_error_log.sh

#/bin/bash
# parse error logs on your server and send you daily updates to email

# configure options
EMAIL=<...>

WORKDIR="/root"
TAIL=5  # number of entries to send
IGNORE="/backup" # path to ignore
LOG_FILENAME = "error.log"

# script starts 'ere
cd /
LIST=`locate error.log  | grep -v $IGNORE`;
today=`date +%Y-%m-%d`

cd $WORKDIR
rm -f phperrlog.txt

echo $LIST
echo $today

for i in $LIST
do

if [ -f $i ]; then

  time=`date -r $i +%F`

  if [ "$time" == "$today" ]; then
   echo $i >>phperrlog.txt
   echo "---------------------------------" >>phperrlog.txt
   tail -n $TAIL $i >>phperrlog.txt
   echo -e "\n\n\n\n" >>phperrlog.txt
  fi
fi

done

if [ -f  phperrlog.txt ]; then
  mail -s "server error logs - $today" $EMAIL  < phperrlog.txt
fi