Yes, so, i suppose that you need something like that or to use some king of "flag" in the script.
When it start it opens a file in /tmp, and when it finishes it removes that file. With another script you can check the presence of the flag file and you can log something. CHeers! On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 11:47 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > Nicolas Arias wrote: > > I think that the feature that you are asking for is not supported, > > buuuuut, you can modify the scritp that you are running with cron to log > > a line, with logger, when it starts, so, then with ossec you can > > correlate that entry with the finished one.... > > > > > > CHeers! > > Nico > > > I already have a 'START' log event, but I'm trying to test for 2 > scenarios, one, that the 'START' event isn't logged at all, or two, that > I do not get a 'Finished' log event during the course of the day. > > basically I'm trying to alert either if the job doesn't start at all, or > if it starts but hangs and doesn't finish. Does that make sense? > >
