Re: {bb} Limiting the duration of a 'red' msgs alert

[Emmett Hogan <hogan@gnac.com>]

Steve,

Take a look at bb-hacker.sh at www.deadcat.net, it works in
conjunction with logchecker.

Hope this helps,
Emmett

On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:21:01AM -0800, Steve Hillman wrote:
> Hi folks,
>   Has anyone written a patch to limit how long a 'bad message' in
> /var/adm/messages causes a red alert for? On some of our less verbose
> machines, we only rotate the logs once a week, which means the msgs column
> stays red long after the problem has been handled or acknowledged. Since I
> don't want to zero out my log file whenever I solve a problem it reported,
> it would be nice to tell big brother to stop reporting it after some amount
> of time (for example, red for one hour (with an accompanying page), then
> yellow for 4 hours, then green again).
> 
> If no one has done it, I'll get to work on it myself. I expect it'll
> require an add-on program that decodes the time stamp of each log entry to
> determine whether that log entry is recent enough to alert about.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve Hillman                           hillman@sfu.ca
> Senior Systems Administrator            (604) 291-3960
> Simon Fraser University
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