Reporting of HDERR (hard disk errors) (was Re: /usr/adm/unix.log)

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <10585 at stb.UUCP> michael at stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
|>I just discovered /usr/adm/unix.log
|>
...
|>#4. Is there any way to get these mesages into a more noticable place 
|>(such as SMRG's message queue?)

He's a little shell script I worked up that does this very thing.
Place the shell script in /usr/lbin/errnotify.sh, make it 755 permission.

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#
# Notify user of HARD DISK errors from /usr/adm/unix.log daily.
#
# By Lenny Tropiano
#    ICUS Software Systems   (...icus!lenny, lenny at icus.islp.ny.us)
#
# Place in /usr/lib/crontab:
#
#    59 23 * * * /bin/su root % /usr/lbin/errnotify.sh > /dev/null
#
DATE="`date '+%h %d'`"
grep "${DATE}" /usr/adm/unix.log | grep "HDERR" > /tmp/$$hderr
#
# See if there are any errors tonight.
#
set `wc /tmp/$$hderr`
LINES=$1
CHRS=$3
if [ ${CHRS} -ne 0 ]	
then
	echo "${LINES} hard disk errors occurred on ${DATE}" > /dev/error
	cat /tmp/$$hderr > /dev/error
fi
rm -f /tmp/$$hderr
exit 0
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