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monitor a log file

Sachin_46 — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:17:29 GMT

hey,
i have a log file which gets updated every minute. I need to create a script which monitors the log file , if it doesnt update for 5 minutes then send me an email.
I can put this cron and run every 5 min.
Is there any way i can write a script or use a find command?
The log file time stamp is in GMT!
thanks,

Re: monitor a log file

Muthukumar_5 — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:43:01 GMT

You can try this as,

#!/bin/sh
cd
touch newfile
find . -type f -newerm newfile
rm -f newfile

Put this file in cron to execute for every 5 minutes.

hth.

Re: monitor a log file

Joel Girot — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 03:08:38 GMT

Hi Sachin
maybe something like that ?

#!/usr/bin/ksh
while true
do
touch /tmp/timefile
sleep 300
if test /tmp/timefile -nt /tmp/yourlogfile ; then
echo "timefile newer than yourlogfile" | mail root
else
echo "yourlogfile acceded since five minutes"
fi
done

Joel