Re: My 10 liner alert log monitoring WORKING shell Script !!! Comments Please !!!!

> Actually its 20 lines,
> I did some initial tests, seems to be working fine.
> Appreciate your comments and feedback, suggestions
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Just another point of view: I would use a kind of daemon.

tail -f alert.log | while read error; do

   case "$error" in
     ORA-*) printf "%s\n" "$ORACLE_SID" "$(date)" "$error" | mailx -s "$ORACLE_SID : ${error:0:8}" email_at_address.edu ;;

   esac
done

Just remember to restart the daemon if you remove/move the log :)

Regards
Dimitre

P.S. The ${var:start:lenght} syntax is a valid for ksh93 and bash > 2.0, if I recall correctly.

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