swatch process always stop after a few days
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Oct 12 21:05:07 UTC 2006
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.
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