Hi,

Need help to create a script to get date format value from text file. I have a log text file which has the below date time value on every line:

Wed Nov 21 11:04:10 GMT 2012 - SOMETEXT|TEXT1|TEXT2|TEXT3|etc....etc

I want to somehow find a way to trigger a action using the following condition:

1.) Check every 30 minutes for variable showing "NOT RESPONDING" from the last time I triggered the job.

But I am thinking on how to convert the above time into something that I can use an operator "now is equal or less than".

Can someone please help to construct this for me? I am a newbie on scripting.

What you need is to separate your questions and match each one to a solution. When you have got it all, then you glue it together as a script.


That's a cron job. Show us how the cron entry would read if the script was called "/usr/local/bin/check".


That's grep. Show us how the grep line would look like.


That's epoch. Read 'man date' and show us:
- how you display time in epoch format,
- how you display the time it is now in epoch format,
- how you display the time 30 minutes ago in epoch format.


All the more reason to put in a wee bit more effort IMHO. Also, as you seem to be working with Voice over IP and Short Message Services, it wouldn't harm to check if interfaces, tools or 3rd party applications exist that help you with diagnosing and reporting problems.

Thanks.

Yes you are correct this can be achieved by cron. Sorry for the confusion. What I am more concerned about is the date manipulation on changing that specific date format on a text file to an epoch time and pass a condition that if certain values with the timestamp on that text file is 30 minutes kess than the current date and time, it will trigger something.

To make it easy, i want that value in text to be converted and compared with the current system time to create a condition. Thanks.

My reply addresses that already. Return what I asked for and you'll see.