Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:41:32 -0500 (EST) From: vogelke+unix@pobox.com (Karl Vogel) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: convert date and time to epoch in awk Message-ID: <20130220014133.4D8D0BF63@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> In-Reply-To: <CAHM0YgvadWLRUNvyQzTj0b=YkfZAyzRRCTEyjByqXM9yXsynhg@mail.gmail.com> (message from b w on Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:34:21 %2B0100) References: <CAHM0YgvadWLRUNvyQzTj0b=YkfZAyzRRCTEyjByqXM9yXsynhg@mail.gmail.com>
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>> On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:34:21 +0100,
>> b w <bw.mail.lists@gmail.com> said:
b> I want to write a script that parses the last, say, 10 minutes of a log
b> file looking for a certain string, like 'error', or failed', and returns
b> how many times it shows up. The script would be run by Nagios and if it
b> returns > 0 an alert is raised. Each line of the log file starts with a
b> date like 'Feb 19 23:45:32'.
Instead of looking for 'error' or 'failed', I'd recommend weeding out
benign log entries and returning everything else. Some examples:
http://www.hcst.net/~vogelke/src/logfiles/
Some relevant links for Nagios:
http://serverfault.com/questions/172875/
Is Nagios capable of covering the functionality of Logwatch?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2373212/
How do I use Nagios to monitor a log file
http://serverfault.com/questions/44/
What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
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stop wearing to work), and in reviewing it I can deduce that your parents
were never formally introduced.
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