Good idea and v2 of my own log-checker script was in perl as well and used a similar scheme (though I made everything appear in a single file--I don't like dependencies). Unfortunately, that required knowledge of perl, so I avoided it for this response.
Great minds think alike! :) sol beach wrote:
I do not trust grep "whatever error strings" alert_SID.log; because new errors may be not reported to me. I wrote a simple PERL program to report all/any lines not contained in an "ignore file". It runs via cron every 5 minutes & starts reporting from the timestamp where it last ended.
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