Script help

[SHABU KHAN]

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone has a script already that would check for an "error pattern" in the logs and emails/pages out if that error occurs. I need to cron that every 5 minutes.

Any help would be greatly appreciaed.

Thanks,
Shabu

[SHABU KHAN]

Hi,

For now, the script that I am testing currently works if run every 30 minutes. I couldn't think of any other methods that the script could be modified to run more frequently.

I've attached the script.

Any suggestions/ideas ?

Thanks,
Shabu

[Mark Greene_1]

why not put it in cron and run it every 5 minutes? or, have the script rerun itself in 1 minute should if find an error:

echo "[full path of script]|at -m 1

HTH
mark

[Justo Exposito]

Hi,

Do you try to put:
if [ "${CTIME}" -le 040000 ]; then
TSPREAD="999999"
else
TSPREAD="0500"
fi
Where are this:
if [ "${CTIME}" -le 040000 ]; then
TSPREAD="999999"
else
TSPREAD="3000"
fi

Hope this helps,

Justo.

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Khan,
Attached is the script that I use.
It does check for named, yp, sendmail syslog etc...

[SHABU KHAN]

Initially changing the tspread logic to 5 minutes didn't work and later I changed the logic further down the program and forgot to change it back to 5 minutes.

The testing so far has been successful.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Justo !

-Shabu

[Dave La Mar]

Attached is a down and dirt that works fine for us. As you can see, you may grep for additional entries.
The date portion parses out only the current month's errors.
Best of Luck.
dl

[Justo Exposito]

You are welcome Shabu.

Cheers,

Justo.

[John Carr_2]

Hi

you coluld set up crontab to do this

dmesg - | mailx ...

this will give you any error messages which have occured since the last time dmesg was run after the first time.

cheers
John.