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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Trapping a kill command sent to a script and using it to send an EOF to a subprocess before killing Post 302880579 by DeCoTwc on Friday 20th of December 2013 04:55:13 PM
Old 12-20-2013
Trapping a kill command sent to a script and using it to send an EOF to a subprocess before killing
I originally had a script written in pure shell that I used to parse logs in real time and create a pipe delimited file that only contained errors. It worked but it was using a lot of memory (still not clear on why). I originally got around this by writing a wrapper for the script that ran on cron and periodically killed the script and started a new instance. This worked for a while, but was still too heavy. So, I rewrote the parsing logic in awk instead of shell and the memory and CPU utilization dropped completely.

So now, I have this script running, but every 15 minutes the cronjob kills it and starts a new instance. What I want to do now is have my awk section of the script building out arrays, and when the cron kicks in, it sends an EOF to the awk so it can dump it's info into a separate file before it's killed and a new instance is started. Below is my code. What I want to do is add blocks to the awk section that creates arrays, and then add an end block to it that dumps the values from those arrays into a file. So, I need to trap the kill command and then have it send an EOF to awk, then kill the script and start a new instance.


Code:
#!/bin/bash
######################################################
# Program:      logGen.sh
# Date Created: 22 Aug 2012
# Description:  parses the manager log in real time into daily error files
# Date Updated: 27 Nov 2013
#		|_moved all data parsing logic to awk instead of shell
#		|_Need to analyze memory/CPU usage and consider changing
#		|_restart frequency in cron
# Developer:    Redacted (Senior Support Engineer)
######################################################
#Prefix for pid file
pidPrefix="logGen"
#output direcory
outDir="/opt/Redacted/logs/allerrors/"
#Simple function to see if running on primary
checkPrime ()
{
  if /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0|/bin/grep -wq inet;then isPrime=1;else isPrime=0;fi
}


#function to kill previous instances of this script
killScript ()
{
  /usr/bin/find /var/run -name "${pidPrefix}.*.pid" |while read pidFile;do
    if [[  "${pidFile}" != "/var/run/${pidPrefix}.${$}.pid" ]];then
      /bin/kill -- -$(/bin/cat ${pidFile})
      /bin/rm ${pidFile}
    fi
  done
}


#Check to see if primary
#If so, kill any previous instance and start log parsing
#If not, just kill leftover running processes

checkPrime
if [[ "${isPrime}" -eq 1 ]];then
  echo "$$" > /var/run/${pidPrefix}.$$.pid
  killScript
  tail -F -n0 /opt/Fabrix.TV/logs/manager_proxy.log|awk -v dir=$outDir '{OFS="|"}
{
  if ($3 == "E")
  {
    file="allerrors."$1".log"
    gsub("/",".",file)
    if ($9 ~ /@/)
      print $1,$2,$8,$9,substr($0, index($0,$10)) >> dir file
    else {if ($8 !~ /@/)
      print $1,$2,$7,"NULL",substr($0, index($0,$8)) >> dir file
    }
    fflush(stdout);
  }
}'
else
  killScript
  exit 0
fi

 

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dpkg-www

DPKG-WWW(1)						      General Commands Manual						       DPKG-WWW(1)

NAME

       dpkg-www - program to remotely open a WWW Debian package browser

SYNOPSIS

       dpkg-www [-s|--stdout] [-h|--host host] [query]

DESCRIPTION

       dpkg-www is used to remotely control a WEB browser and open a dpkg URL on the local host from an interactive shell or script.

       If  the	command  is invoked while running under X-window the script will try to find an installed X browser to open the specified URL.	If
       not running under X it will try to use a text browser instead.

       If Netscape is found and a Netscape instance is already running it will be asked to open the dpkg URL on localhost with the optional  query
       supplied on the command line.  If there is no browser running, it will start automatically a new one.

       The  functionality  provided  by this program is identical to running a web browser with the -remote openURL(http://localhost/cgi-bin/dpkg)
       argument or opening the same URL from within the browser.

       dpkg-www-installer is an helper application which can configured in the WWW browser for	web  installation.  It	should	never  be  invoked
       directly by the user.

OPTIONS

       -s, --stdout
	      Redirect output to stdout. Requires one of the text browsers (lynx, lynx-ssl or links) installed.

       -h, --host host
	      Send the query to a remote host, where dpkg-www must be installed.

       query  Specifies  an  optional  package name, an absolute pathname or a query argument which is passed to the dpkg cgi-bin. See dpkg-www(8)
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FILES

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       ~/.dpkg-www
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	      can specify your preferred www browser with the DPKG_WWW_BROWSER variable, for example: DPKG_WWW_BROWSER=mozilla

EXAMPLES

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       dpkg-www bash
	      This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the bash package.

       dpkg-www -h pisolo bash
	      This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the bash package on host pisolo.

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	      This would open a dpkg URL listing all packages matching dpkg*.

       dpkg-www /bin/bash
	      This would open a dpkg URL asking info on the package(s) owning the file /bin/bash .

       dpkg-www depends=svgalib
	      This would open a dpkg URL listing all packages depending on svgalib.

       dpkg-www --stdout depends=awk | grep ^ii
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SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

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