shell script

noir911 · 01-21-2009, 03:57 PM

I have a file that's supposed to be growing in size 24/7. I want to check every 10 minutes via cron that it's actually growing. If not, send an email. Does anyone know how to write a script to do that?

Thanks.

jailbait · 01-21-2009, 04:08 PM

Use the du command to get the file size and save the current size in a save file. At boot initialize the file size in the save file to 0 with a script in rc.local. Each 10 minutes have a cron job issue a du command, check the size against the size in your save file and if > then overwrite the save file with the new du value. If not > then send the email.

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Hko · 01-21-2009, 04:09 PM

Faster and simpler:

Code:

shell$ stat -c%s /etc/fstab
915

renjithrajasekaran · 01-24-2009, 09:17 AM

du file_to_be_monitored

This will give you the file size of the file you are interested in monitoring.

Write this value it to a txt file.

Every 10 mins - run the du command above and compare the value returned from it to the value in the text file we wrote to earlier.
If the values are different - overwrite it.
Else - fire a mail to the concerned person(s)

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