On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Piero Calucci wrote: > in fact the "duration ..." message is output by fping.monitor
correct. the "duration" is meant to be an indication of how long fping.monitor spent doing its thing for that particular invocation. > If you really need to know the downtime interval you should look at > log.d/downtime.log correct. this yields the duration of the failure for the service. it is written only when a service starts working again after failing. if you want the alert to report this, then you can have the alert program refer to the "MON_LAST_FAILURE" and "MON_LAST_SUCCESS" environment variables. _______________________________________________ mon mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon