fix to not try to choke down entire log file to find the unassigned dhcp addresses.

[feisty_meow.git] / scripts / system / find_dhcp_unassigned.sh

diff --git a/scripts/system/find_dhcp_unassigned.sh b/scripts/system/find_dhcp_unassigned.sh
index 0983bf207802a43b4354dafe85d6cd88df028ade..6abc1c71cbe2f49d3c0fa667ab5843acd9f93e1b 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/system/find_dhcp_unassigned.sh
+++ b/scripts/system/find_dhcp_unassigned.sh
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ if [ ! -s "$logfile" ]; then
   # a simple fail over that's not guaranteed to work.
   logfile="/var/log/syslog"
 fi
-grep -i "dhcp.*2[4-5][0-9]" "$logfile" | less
+tail -n 500 "$logfile" | grep -i "dhcp.*2[4-5][0-9]" | less