>> On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:34:21 +0100,
>> b w <bw.mail.li...@gmail.com> said:
b> I want to write a script that parses the last, say, 10 minutes of a log
b> file looking for a certain string, like 'error', or failed', and returns
b> how many times it shows up. The script would be run by Nagios and if it
b> returns > 0 an alert is raised. Each line of the log file starts with a
b> date like 'Feb 19 23:45:32'.
Instead of looking for 'error' or 'failed', I'd recommend weeding out
benign log entries and returning everything else. Some examples:
http://www.hcst.net/~vogelke/src/logfiles/
Some relevant links for Nagios:
http://serverfault.com/questions/172875/
Is Nagios capable of covering the functionality of Logwatch?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2373212/
How do I use Nagios to monitor a log file
http://serverfault.com/questions/44/
What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
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John, this smells worse than your uncle's codpiece (which I wish you would
stop wearing to work), and in reviewing it I can deduce that your parents
were never formally introduced.
--Slashdot suggestion for inspecting poorly-written code
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