Re: Daily/weekly/monthly output aggregation

From: Mikolaj Rydzewski (miki_at_ceti.pl)
Date: 11/17/03

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    Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:17:19 +0100 (CET)
To: isp@freebsd.org

    On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Lapinski, Michael (Research) wrote:

    > The way I deal with it is by the size of the message,
    > day in day out the messages are usually +- a few bytes
    > different in size when things go normal. Maybe write
    > something that flags messages smaller or larger then
    > the daily average of the runs...

    Hello,

    Why don't you like the idea: no output means no errors? Just create your
    periodic scripts to produce no output when everything is fine. Cron will
    not mail you anything what has produced no results.

    Just to get the idea. I know, it isn't fool proof; there are more secure
    ways to do this, etc. But it works ;-)

    #!/bin/sh

    log=`mktemp /tmp/.log.XXXXXX`

    # ... perform your stuff, i.e.
    /usr/local/sbin/backup > $log 2>&1

    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
            cat $log
    fi
    rm -f $log 

    -- 
Mikolaj Rydzewski      <miki@ceti.pl>        http://ceti.pl/~miki/
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