Re: {bb} empty /var/adm/messages

["Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk>]

Joshua Au wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     Let me eat back my words. I meant what should I do to amend my
> bb-msgs.sh.
> I was thinking of changing this line
>
>   -> elif test "$CHKMSGLEN" ="TRUE" && test ! -s "$file"
>
> and replace -s with -r. Would that stop bb from taking an empty
> messages file as a red critical event?
The "$CHKMSGLEN" = "TRUE"
should hint to you that this configurable.
If you grep for CHKMSGLEN where bb configurations are stored, you get this:

bbdef.sh:# CHKMSGLEN IS SET TO TRUE BY DEFAULT.  IT WILL SCREAM IF IT FINDS
bbdef.sh:CHKMSGLEN="TRUE"                       # MAKE SURE MSG FILE IS 
NON-ZERO LEN

So try changing CHKMSGLEN to FALSE...

On the other hand, it would be better if you modified your logfile rotation 
script, so it added a line (often the time/date) when rotating, so it is 
never empty.

Leif


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