Hi,

I had wrote a script to monitor my server load and to send me a mail on high loads. But i am unable to execute it , as i get the following error.

bash scriptfile
(standard_in) 1: parse error

The file is as below:

#!/bin/bash
ALERT=1
EMAIL="myname@company.com"
SUB="Alert $(hostname) load average"
TEXT="Load Average:"
A=1

L5M="$(uptime | awk -F "$TEXT" '{ print $2 }' | cut -d, -f1)"
L10M="$(uptime | awk -F "$TEXT" '{ print $2 }' | cut -d, -f2)"
L15M="$(uptime | awk -F "$TEXT" '{ print $2 }' | cut -d, -f3)"

TEMPFILE="$(mktemp)"
echo "Load average Crossed allowed limit $ALERT" >> $TEMPFILE
echo "Hostname: $(hostname)" >> $TEMPFILE
echo "Local Date & Time : $(date)" >> $TEMPFILE

OUTPUT=$(echo "$L15M > $ALERT" | bc)

if ["$OUTPUT" -eq "$A" ];
then
echo ok
mail -s "$SUB" "$EMAIL " <$TEMPFILE
fi


rm -f $TEMPFILE


Please point out the errors in my script file.


Thanks in Advance

That line is giving an error. There should be a space after '['

Also the output of uptime on my system uses 'load average:' (lowercase l and a) not 'Load Average:' so that might be a problem. TEXT="load average:"

P.S. Code is easier to read and better formatted with code tags.

Thank you.

It works