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Old 07-13-2013
Hi Gabriel,

I have created a text file by adding the logs and saved it as mylog.txt
Code:
#!/bin/sh
mailcontents=mailbody
while read line
do
    if [ ! -f $line ]; then
        echo "The file $line doesn't exist. Continuing with the next file..." >> $mailcontents
        echo "============" >> $mailcontents 
        continue
    else
        last_mod_time=$(stat -c '%Y' $line) # this line checks the log's last modification time and converts it to Unix's epoch
        last_24_hours=$(date +%s -d "24 hours ago") # this line returns the epoch for the current timestamp minus 24 hours

        if [ $last_mod_time -lt $last_24_hours ]; then
            echo "Log $line has NOT been updated in the last 24 hours" >> $mailcontents
        else
            echo "Log $line was updated during the last 24 hours" >> $mailcontents
        fi
    
        tail -100 $line > mylog.txt

        error=$(grep ERROR mylog.txt | wc -l) # We look for the lines containing the word "ERROR" in the mylog.txt file.
                                             # Then we redirect the output to the wc -l command that will count the number
                                             # of lines where the word ERROR appears.
    
        if [ $error -gt 0 ]; then # If this condition is satisfied, that means the word ERROR appeared at least once in
                                  # the log that's being examined in the current loop.
            echo "ERROR found in log $line" >> $mailcontents
        else
            echo "No errors found in $line" >> $mailcontents
        fi
    fi
echo "============" >> $mailcontents
done < mylogs.txt

if [ -s $mailcontents ]; then
    mail -s "Log errors and last modification times - $(date +'%A %B %d, %Y')" myemail@gmail.com < $mailcontents
fi

rm $mailcontents mylog.txt # Delete auxiliary files when we're done.

This is the script i written to execute the shell to retrieve the logs from mylog.txt

The issues which i faced is
1) Am using AIX terminal for running the script.
2) Am facing issues in date convertion steps

Code:
last_mod_time=$(stat -c '%Y' $line)
last_24_hours=$(date +%s -d "24 hours ago")

The stat -c is not recognized as well as date -d is not recognized on the AIX terminal. Its sending a result like " The logs were not Updated for 24 hours for all the logs as it couldnt recognize/read the dates on the logs.

The only problem is date conversion is there any solution for this to run the shell script (not bash) .. Could you please help me out by modifying the date conversion which would be in a readable format for AIX terminal. Thanks for your patience and thanks in advance

Last edited by Franklin52; 07-14-2013 at 06:03 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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LOGGER(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 LOGGER(1)

NAME
logger -- make entries in the system log SYNOPSIS
logger [-is] [-f file] [-p pri] [-t tag] [message ...] DESCRIPTION
Logger provides a shell command interface to the syslog(3) system log module. Options: -i Log the process id of the logger process with each line. -s Log the message to standard error, as well as the system log. -f file Log the specified file. -p pri Enter the message with the specified priority. The priority may be specified numerically or as a ``facility.level'' pair. For example, ``-p local3.info'' logs the message(s) as informational level in the local3 facility. The default is ``user.notice.'' -t tag Mark every line in the log with the specified tag. message Write the message to log; if not specified, and the -f flag is not provided, standard input is logged. The logger utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EXAMPLES
logger System rebooted logger -p local0.notice -t HOSTIDM -f /dev/idmc SEE ALSO
syslog(3), syslogd(8) STANDARDS
The logger utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (``POSIX.2''). 4.3 Berkeley Distribution June 6, 1993 4.3 Berkeley Distribution
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