Re: Question on Bash Shell Script for Load Performance Monitoring

From: Paul Lutus (nospam_at_nosite.zzz)
Date: 10/27/04

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    Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:26:10 -0700

    aixenv wrote:

    > I am writing a script to monitor a server which has halted at a
    > strange hour with no visible reason, I have reason to suspect it could
    > be a runaway qmail process or the system is just getting under heavy
    > load, or both.
    >
    > SO I wrote the following script, it works, it just seems very
    > "sloppy", and I was just curious how else I could accomplish the same
    > goal.
    >
    > Also i thought of emailing the output of /tmp/srvload.log to an email
    > address and thought it might be nice to sort newest entries in
    > /tmp/srvload.log to the beginning of the file versus appending them to
    > the end of the file. however i am unclear how to proceed and
    > accomplish this goal

    For this specific part,

    $ man tac

    And to separate only the newest entries from the original log file:

    $ man tail 

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Paul Lutus
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