We need to know more about what is writing data to your log file and how it is writing data to your log file. If the log file is being held open constantly by the writer, then catting /dev/null to your log file won't work; you'll have to force the writer to close and reopen the log file. (That may mean you have to kill and restart the writer.)
With the code you have, you'll have problems because:
you have mismatched quotes,
there has to be space between the test operands and the closing ],
you'll lose log data if a log entry is made between the time when you send the email and the time when you clear your log file with cat, and
although the log file isn't cleared if the mail fails, there is no backup plan for sending any notification if mail fails.
If log entries are written individually with the log file being created (if it didn't already exist), or appended to (if it did exist) for each log entry (as assumed by your current code), then your life if MUCH simpler with something like:
If mail fails, this will just cat the log data for that round to standard output. You can replace that cat with some other backup notification plan if you want to. This was written and tested with a Korn shell, but will work with any shell that conforms to minimal POSIX shell syntax (such as ash, bash, ksh, ,ksh, zsh, etc.).
With a pure, historical Bourne shell (such as /bin/sh on Solaris systems), you would need to change the line:
to:
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Friends,
I am in search for a shell script that is capable of running as a cronjob and have to send out an email when ever there is a CORE DUMP.
Please post the hints to achieve my goal.
Thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I need to get current error messages with time from alert.log.Below is my shell script but it's not working to meet this objective.
could anyone pls share on the above issue for resolution:
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## ckalertlog.sh ##... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
My below shell script is not capturing %used value in the filesystem alert in the subject of the mail alert:
#!/bin/bash
export DBALIST="abc@xyz.com"
df -k /oradata/xyz/archive > dfk.result
archive_capacity=`awk -F" " '{ print $5 }' dfk.result|grep -i %| cut -c 1-4`
if ]
then... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a task on my plate which is of high priority.
I need an automated email alert that checks FTP notices subdirectory on a daily basis and forwards any word files to a group of people. This word files gets created whenever there is an issue with FTP connectivity.
Please help...... (1 Reply)
Hi,
as the title says, I am after a simple script, which will open the Alert log from
an 11.2.0.1 Linux environment and mail the error message and description to a recipient email address.
I can then schedule this job via cron and let it run every 15 minutes.
I have searched online... (16 Replies)
Hi all
can any one help me to script monitoring
CPU load avg when reaches threshold value
and disk usage if it exceeds some %
tried using awk but when df -h out put is in two different lines awk doesnt work for the particular output in two different line ( output for df -h is in two... (7 Replies)
Hi ,
I want a script who will send alert the moment someone edit any file in a directory in LINUX. Can some one throw some light on this please.!! (4 Replies)
HI Guys,
I am writing one shell script to send the mail alert to some email id's if the file not modified in last 10 mins but its not working, I believe MTIME is null string is wrong . can you please assist me on this.
script :-
filename="abc.txt"
echo "Filename is $filename"... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have below shell script to send mail alert , however I want to add more functionality in this script and that is , script should only check that file between 9 am to 5pm , and if there is no activity in this time 9 am to 5 pm for 2hours then it should give me mail alert, please help... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
My below shell script is not capturing %used value in the filesystem alert in the subject of the mail alert:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
export DBALIST="abc@xyz.com"
df -k /oradata/xyz/archive > dfk.result
archive_capacity=`awk -F" " '{ print $5 }' dfk.result|grep -i %| cut -c 1-4`
if... (6 Replies)