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DeafFrog
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crontab to send alert only once

Dear Gurus ,

I am monitoring a port , if the number of connection on that port increases to more than one , i intend to send a mail .I intend to schedule this thru crontab , but the mail should go only once , even if the cron tab next run find more process listening on that port.

somethnig like :-
a=`/usr/local/bin/lsof -i tcp:21414 | grep -v "^COMMAND"| wc -l`
if [ $a >1]
then
send mail to this person
fi

---but if this runs thru crontab , and found again 3 process listening it will send the mail again , i want to avoid this second mail .

Please suggest.

Many Thanks in advance.

Regards ,
FrogIsDeaf
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James R. Ferguson
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Re: crontab to send alert only once

Hi:

You might record the number of connections in a file or even simply create a file to signify that more than one connection exists. Each time your script runs, test for the presence of the file (or read the number of connections recorded in it) and take the appropriate action.

Regards!

...JRF...
Steve Post
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Re: crontab to send alert only once

a=`/usr/local/bin/lsof -i tcp:21414 | grep -v "^COMMAND"| wc -l`
if [ $a >1 -a ! -f /tmp/mute.button ]
then
send mail to this person
touch /tmp/mute.button
fi

and a second job to run on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?
rm /tmp/mute.button 2>>/dev/null
DeafFrog
Valued Contributor

Re: crontab to send alert only once

Hello James and Steve ,
Thanks again.

Steve : why the second job to remove the /tmp/mute.button on
alternate days , and not daily. i want to send mail only once ,
everyday , if more than one process found.

Regards,
FrogIsDeaf
Prasanth V Aravind
Trusted Contributor

Re: crontab to send alert only once

a=`/usr/local/bin/lsof -i tcp:21414 | grep -v "^COMMAND"| wc -l`
if [ $a >1]
then

if test -f /tmp/mail.lock.file
then
echo "do nothing "
else
send mail to this person
touch /tmp/mail.lock.file
fi
else

rm /tmp/mail.lock.file

fi
Steve Post
Trusted Contributor

Re: crontab to send alert only once

Why Monday, Wednesday, Friday? It actually was just a whim. You said daily. But I figured you didn't want to get bugged on a weekend.

For me, I wouldn't delete the mute button until I got back to work and fixed the problem. Then I would delete it by hand.

But I better not forget about it.

Steven Schweda
Honored Contributor

Re: crontab to send alert only once

> But I better not forget about it.

You could have a cron job send you an e-mail
message* if the marker file gets too old.



* Or shut down the system.
TTr
Honored Contributor

Re: crontab to send alert only once

How often would you be running the cron job? In the same script you can check the time of day and delete the mute.button every morning or whenever you like. For example if the job is running 8am to 5pm every 5 minutes, you can check if "date +%R" is equal to 08:00 and delete the file before you check for connections.
Steve Post
Trusted Contributor

Re: crontab to send alert only once

# and delete the mute button if it is over 24 hours
/usr/bin/find /tmp \
-name mute.button \
-mtime +1 \
-type f \
-size 0 \
-exec rm {} \+
Steve Post
Trusted Contributor

Re: crontab to send alert only once

No wait.... Look at Prasanth's reply. You would want to send a new page if the error went away and came back in under 24 hours.