Help needed: scripting

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Hi,

I don't know the scripiting.

I want to write a script which moitor syslog.log file and when a perticular message appear It send alert to me.

I get exit code in syslog.log so whenever exit code is not equal to zero i should get alert.

Thanks in advance

Sunil

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Well, it depends on how the line looks in your syslog and how you want to be alerted, but it will look something like this, I guess. Just change the grep-pattern and the alert command.

tail -f /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log |grep 'exitcode!=zero' | while read line
do
alert sunil $line
done

[Sanjay Kumar Suri]

Have a look at this:

http://www.unixguide.net/scripts/nightowl

Bit lenghty (and may be risky).

sks