Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 14:20:56 +0100 From: Rogier Steehouder <r.j.s@gmx.net> To: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> Cc: Shashi Dookhee <dookhee.s@trafficproximity.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How would you do this? Message-ID: <20011028142056.B622@localhost> In-Reply-To: <001d01c15f4a$3397f5a0$14ce21c7@avatar.com>; from kory@avatar.com on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 05:48:04PM -0700 References: <MNEAKCLKAEKLKKPGAOJBKEBGEOAA.dookhee.s@trafficproximity.com> <001d01c15f4a$3397f5a0$14ce21c7@avatar.com>
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On 27-10-2001 17:48 (-0700), Kory Hamzeh wrote:
> Hi Shashi,
>
> My concern is the second time it is run, I need to make sure that I
> don't send another e-mail because of OLD messages (which I already
> sent an e-mail for an hour ago). I looks like I need to parse the file
> and keep the timestamp of the newest log message that triggered the
> e-mail, and then only check for new messages with newer timestamps.
> That is something that I don't feel competent enough to do with a
> scripting language (i.e. convert a syslog time to a absolute number).
>
> Kory
If you run the script hourly from cron, you only need to check items
from the last hour: no need to save the time. As to your competence in
scripting languages, well...
With kind regards, Rogier Steehouder
P.S. If you can tell me/us exactly what message you're looking for, I/we
could give you a ready-to-use example. It would be better for you to
learn perl if you might want more of this stuff in the future.
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