Glance and Date Changing

[Mahesh Babbar]

Hi ,

I have a script as follows:
#!/bin/ksh
file=`date "+%d%m%Y"`
/opt/perf/bin/glance -j 60 -adviser_only -syntax /opt/perf/bin/advfile >> /var/glance_log/$file.log &

Purpose is to capture the data on per date basis.

Issue is that glance is not writing output to new file as the date changed rather it continues to write on the same file.

What's the best way to address this issue.

TIA

Mahesh

[Laurent Menase · Accepted solution]

Hi Mahesh
If you want to write more than one file you should do:
file=`date "+%d%m%Y"`
/opt/perf/bin/glance -j 60 -iterations $((24*60 - 1)) -adviser_only -syntax /opt/perf/bin/advfile >>/var/glance_log/$file.log &

starting it at 0:00:00 with cron

you can replace the $((24*60 -1)) by 1439

[Borislav Perkov]

Hi,

The script starts only once and keep sending the output to $file at the moment glance starts. If you stop the execution of the script and start on different day it will send the output to new file. If your server reboots every day you can use -bootup option of glance, and everything will be find. If it is not a case you should find a way to restart your script, killing your glance process at midnight and starting it again.

Regards,
Borislav

[Laurent Menase]

Or:
#!/bin/ksh

while :
do
file=`date "+%d%m%Y"`
/opt/perf/bin/glance -j 60 -adviser_only -syntax /opt/perf/bin/advfile >> /var/glance_log/$file.log &

echo $! > /var/tmp/glanceadv.pid
done

and in a cron

kill $(cat /var/tmp/glanceadv.pid )

[Laurent Menase]

oops I forgot the wait else a lot of glance will be started

#!/bin/ksh

while :
do
file=`date "+%d%m%Y"`
/opt/perf/bin/glance -j 60 -adviser_only -syntax /opt/perf/bin/advfile >> /var/glance_log/$file.log &

echo $! > /var/tmp/glanceadv.pid

wait
done

[Mahesh Babbar]

Thanks to all for replying.

I will be using a combination of the solutions provided.

regards

Mahesh