Hi,

I have written the following UNIX for HP-UX 11i. The script basically checks for files older then 45mins in 2 repective directories and then sends and email to the administrator about them.

Problem with the script is that I can run it from the command line and crontabtab but 80% of the time it errors out with the following error message "date: bad conversion".

I'm puzzled as to why it works brilliantly sometimes and why majority of the times it errors out with the above error message. Can a UNIX scripting guru please advise. Script displayed below:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
mailgroup='testuser@xxx.com'

LOGFILEIN=/tmp/sipstimein.log
LOGFILEPROC='/tmp/sipstimeproc.log'

#GET AND PARSE THE CURRENT DATE
date "+%m %d %H %M" | while read MONTH DAY HOURS MINS
do

#SUBTRACT 45 MIN
MINS=$(($MINS-45))

if [ $MINS -lt 0 ]
then
HOURS=$(($HOURS-1))
MINS=$(($MINS+60))
fi

#TOUCH A FILE SO THAT IT IS 45 MINUTES OLD
touch -t ${MONTH}${DAY}${HOURS}${MINS} /tmp/oldtime
done

#Find files older then 45mins condition
find /interface/data8/sips/proc ! -newer /tmp/oldtime | while read FILENAME
do
#CHECK THAT IT IS A REGULAR FILE, AND NOT A DIR OR
# CHARACTER FILE, BEFORE RUNNING THE COMMAND AGAINST IT
if [ -f $FILENAME ]
then
echo "$FILENAME" >$LOGFILEIN
sleep 4
mailx -s "Files have been detected older then 45mins in PROD system for SIPS in the PROC directory" <$LOGFILEIN $mailgroup
2>&1
fi
done

find /interface/data8/sips/in ! -newer /tmp/oldtime | while read FILENAME
do
#CHECK THAT IT IS A REGULAR FILE, AND NOT A DIR OR
# CHARACTER FILE, BEFORE RUNNING THE COMMAND AGAINST IT
if [ -f $FILENAME ]
then
echo "$FILENAME" >$LOGFILEPROC
sleep 4
mailx -s "Files have been detected older then 45mins in PROD system for SIPS in the IN directory" <$LOGFILEPROC $mailgroup
2>&1
fi
done

#rm /tmp/oldtime

THANKS and help appreciated.