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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Monitoring & emailing log files Post 302147808 by vgersh99 on Wednesday 28th of November 2007 03:37:47 PM
Old 11-28-2007
It sounds like the algorithm is pretty clear in your head.
Yes you need to write a collector/parse that would have 2 parameters:
  1. path to the log file to parse
  2. path to the file that holds the last known line number examined/parsed by the parser
The parser you read the 'line number' from the 'line number' file and start its parsing of the log file from the next line.
Once the entire file is parsed and the 'offending' records/lines are collected (most likely in another file), the parser will email the collected entries/files to the configured (either in the configuration file OR specified on the command line) list of the email address(es).
Once the emailing is done, the parser will update the 'line number' file with the number of the LAST parsed line in the file.

You should probably make provisions to make sure that there's only ONCE instance of the parser running at the time in order to avoid any collisions.

Now it's a matter of a simple programming....
 

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