On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:07:18PM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <[email protected]>, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > >> Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? > > > > Not that I know of. > > > >> I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The > >> scripts generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're doing. > >> [snip]
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> >> I started to write a wrapper script to take a command to execute and a
> >> file of regular expressions defining expected output lines ...
> ...
> > If you can't / won't fix your scripts, Here's a start on that wrapper:
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> Yes, I have a start.
I have a script that checks for ppp session outages through syslog, I
only want to be notified of changes, i save output and then diff it with
new output. You could use something similiar, have a template of what
you don't want and filter it out, basically you need to post process
your output
#!/bin/bash
OLDF="/var/tmp/pppsession.old"
NEWF="/var/tmp/pppsession.new"
[ ! -e "$OLDF" ] && > "$OLDF"
egrep "sydrt.. *ppp.*Connect.time" /var/log/syslog{.1,} > "$NEWF"
if ! diff "$OLDF" "$NEWF"
then
echo "-----------"
mv "$NEWF" "$OLDF"
cat "$OLDF"
fi
exit 0
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