UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello Friends,

I've been struggling with extreme nagios passive service checks. In order to trigger a nagios passive service im going to write an easy shell script like below and will run it in crontab.
As im working on Solaris 10 servers i used "S" instead of lowercase "s" below

Code:

#!/bin/sh

NOW='date +%s'

echo "[$NOW] SCHEDULE_FORCED_SVC_CHECK;myhost;$NOW" \
>/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd

exit 0

However i could not get what i want; the current time in terms of seconds. On a web page they say i should get date like below
[1206096000]
but i only get seconds like [04] or you say [59]. What should i use to generate current date like above?
NOW='date +%S' does not work well.

Besides on below link "stat" command was recommended but i coudlnt run stat command (I searched it in the system but no stat command to define ENV).
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...e-seconds.html

If your date command does not support the %s format use Perl:

Code:

perl -MTime::Local -le'print timelocal localtime'

For example:

Code:

% epoch_dt="$(perl -MTime::Local -le'print timelocal localtime')"
% echo $epoch_dt 
1254815306

Code:

% epoch_dt="$(perl -MTime::Local -le'print timelocal localtime')"
% echo $epoch_dt 
1254815306

i defined your code as a script and then ran it:

eagle{root}/>./epoch_date.sh
1254815218

it worked fine thanks a lot Radoulov, its my first expericence of using perl