swatch process always stop after a few days
jim martin
postfix168 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 18 02:30:35 UTC 2006
--- jim martin <postfix168 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:56 -0700, jim martin wrote:
> > > Hi.. Anyone used swatch before? I follow the
> > > instruction to run swatch process via the following
> > > command. It will detect the interesting entries in
> > > /var/log/messages and send email to me
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/swatch
> > > --config-file=/var/log/swatchrc1
> > > --tail-file=/var/log/messages &
> > >
> > > However, I always found that the email stop sending
> > > after a few days. When I go to ps -ef , the swatch
> > > process is still listed there as below. I just need
> > > to kill it and restart the command. The emsil will
> > > start sending again. Why it stop ?? Anyone know ?
> > > Any idea how to solve it?
> > >
> > > [root at watcher ~]# ps -ef | grep swatch
> > > root 31442 1 0 Oct04 ? 00:00:00
> > > /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/swatch
> > > --config-file=/var/log/swatchrc1
> > > --tail-file=/var/log/centrallog
> > > root 31444 31442 0 Oct04 ? 00:00:00
> > > /usr/bin/perl /root/.swatch_script.31442
> >
> > Does "after a few days" coincide with midnight or so on Saturday night
> > when the log files get rotated?
> >
> > Paul.
> >
>
>
> Sorry No. Should I add a "nohup" in frout of the "/usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/swatch
> --config-file=/var/log/swatchrc1 --tail-file=/var/log/messages &" to solve this issue ?
>
> #nohup /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/swatch --config-file=/var/log/swatchrc1
> --tail-file=/var/log/messages &
Sorry, Paul, you are right actually the email stop sending after the log files got rotated. Do
you know why ? Any solution for that ?
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