Greetings everyone... I have an issue with a parsing script. My script is parsing through the messages file for "Warning|Panic|Error" messages. I wrote a simple script below.

#!/usr/bin/csh

egrep "WARNING|ERROR|PANIC" /var/adm/messages* > /tmp/test
cat /tmp/test | mailx -s "warning" username1 username2

How can I get the script to parse daily within a twelve hour period such as 8am to 8pm and so on for daily parse of that day only... hope someone can help me.... not really a scripting guys... just a beginner.. sorry...and hope someone can help me out

put it on a cron job.

Ghostdog,

Thanks for the comment... I will try this out. Will this parse the messages for the day only? or will it parse through the entire log from previous days?

Thanks

cron job is like the windows task scheduler. uu just set the date and time you want to run your script. check the man page for cron / crontab for more information

Thanks, I placed it in the cron and will see how it works... thanks for the help.

Well, no when I do that it mails me the entire log file that contains the variables "WARNING|ERROR|PANIC" that are old. I need something more to run every 15 minutes and begin again at the last line that is parsed through. That way if something is found, it will then email me.

Cron alone won't do this for you. You are going to have to write a script that saves the last line processed to a file, and then start at that point the next time the script starts.

Check out this link:

http://www.unixreview.com/documents...

The author of this article is processing an Oracle alert file. You might be able to modify it to fit your needs.

Thanks nails, I will give it a try.

nails, that script was very helpful.. just working the querks now...