Let me ask this then. If I wanted to work around the fluctuations, could I just search for a string in the doc rather the going to a position and only looking there?
If so does anyone know of documentation on the web that would help me with this? Thanks Lance -----Original Message----- From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Strange error Lance Prais wrote: > > I am experiencing the most bizarre problem with my perl script. I am > running the below script on windows nt, that may be the root of the > problem.. The script reads a file and checks to see it the words "Sleeping > for 10 seconds" appears. If it appears four times in a row it sends a text > message so, we can correct the problem. > > What seems to happen is after the script runs for about 2 months with out > restarting the box, at some point it starts reading "Sleeping for 1" The > other thing I notice is when this occurs the output of looks different. > > For example: > > When it is working it looks like this > Sleeping for 10 seconds > Sleeping for 10 seconds > Sleeping for 10 seconds > Sleeping for 10 seconds > Send email > > When it is not working it looks like this: > Sleeping for 1 > Sleeping for 1 > Sleeping for 1 > Sleeping for 1 > END > > As you notice there is a tb added to the script.. Anyone have an Idea to why > this occurring. It could be because you are assuming that the string you are looking for is always at the same position in the string. > Below you will see the script > > Thank you in advance for you help > Lance > > #!/usr/bin/perl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; > my $count = 0; > open MAIL_LOG, ">> siebel_mail.log" or > die "can't append to siebl_mail.log: $!"; > # do this 7 times > for (1 .. 7) { > open OUTPUT, '..\\..\\srvrmgr /ser server.com /e CHK_ENT_PRD /s > CHK_SBL_PRD /u xxxxxx /p xxxxxxx /c "list tasks for server CHK_SBL_PRD > component Email Manager" |' or > die "can't run srvrmgr: $!"; > <OUTPUT> for 1 .. 22; # skip first 22 lines of output > my $line = substr <OUTPUT>, 106, 22; ^^^^^^^ Is the string always at this position? > close OUTPUT; > ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=localtime(time); > if ($count eq 4) ^^ You should use a numerical operator to compare numbers. > { > > use Mail::Sendmail; #Send and email if there are > errors > %mail = ( To => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', > From => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', > Subject => '', > Message => 'Email Manager hung on Apollo' > ); > sendmail(%mail) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error; > print "OK. Log says:\n", $Mail::Sendmail::log; > > print "Apollo is stuck sent Email\n"; > if ($hour> 12) > { > print MAIL_LOG "Error Sending Email ",$hour-12,":$min\n"; > } > else > { > print MAIL_LOG "Error Sending Email $hour:$min\n"; > } > print MAIL_LOG > "--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- \n"; > close MAIL_LOG; > exit; > > } > else > { > if ($line eq "Sleeping for 10 second") > { > $count++; > print "Count $count\n"; > print MAIL_LOG $line, "\n"; > } > else > { > > print $line, "\n"; > print "Count $count\n"; > print MAIL_LOG $line, "\n"; > } > sleep 10; > } > } > if ($hour> 12) > { > print MAIL_LOG "Completed ",$hour-12,":$min\n"; > } > else > { > print MAIL_LOG "Completed $hour:$min\n"; > } > print MAIL_LOG > "--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- \n"; > close MAIL_LOG; This should work better: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # the string to search for my $search = 'Sleeping for 10 seconds'; my $count = 0; my( $min, $hour ); open MAIL_LOG, ">> siebel_mail.log" or die "can't append to siebl_mail.log: $!"; # do this 7 times for ( 1 .. 7 ) { open OUTPUT, '..\\..\\srvrmgr /ser server.com /e CHK_ENT_PRD /s CHK_SBL_PRD /u xxxxxx /p xxxxxxx /c "list tasks for server CHK_SBL_PRD component Email Manager" |' or die "can't run srvrmgr: $!"; <OUTPUT> for 1 .. 22; # skip first 22 lines of output # set $found to true or false my $found = <OUTPUT> =~ /$search/; close OUTPUT; ( $min, $hour ) = (localtime)[1,2]; $hour -= 12 if $hour > 12; if ( $count == 4 ) { use Mail::Sendmail; # Send and email if there are errors %mail = ( To => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', From => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Subject => '', Message => 'Email Manager hung on Apollo' ); sendmail(%mail) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error; print "OK. Log says:\n", $Mail::Sendmail::log; print "Apollo is stuck sent Email\n"; print MAIL_LOG "Error Sending Email $hour:$min\n"; print MAIL_LOG "--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- \n"; close MAIL_LOG; exit 0; } else { if ( $found ) { $count++; } else { print "$search\n"; } print "Count $count\n"; print MAIL_LOG "$search\n"; sleep 10; } } print MAIL_LOG "Completed $hour:$min\n"; print MAIL_LOG "--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- \n"; close MAIL_LOG; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
