We know because the IP check run every 5 minutes by cron, and if it has
no run within 5:01 minutes then the computer is off, or the script isn't
working. But we should assume that the computer is off is there is not a
record for that 5 minute slot. Alternatively we could write another line
into the log when the computer shuts down.

Watty

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 15 August 2004 01:52
> To: Watty
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Log parsing
> 
> Watty wrote:
> 
> > I would like to do some thorough availability reports, so I started
by
> > writing the result of the bash script to a log file. I want to parse
the
> > log file to give me availability reports. The log file is in the
form:
> > 08/14/04 09:10:01 [TAB] S                             - when the IP
> > check returns OK
> > 08/14/04 09:10:01 [TAB] U                             - when the IP
need
> > to be synchronised
> >
> > The process does not run when the computer is not on, so that needs
to
> > be taken into consideration.
> 
> Is there any entry for when the script/computer is started or stopped?
> If not, you're not going to be able to determine the actual uptime. If
> one entry is S, then two hours pass and an entry is U, how do we know
if
> the computer was on or off during that time?
> 
> Basically how this is going to work:
> 
> 1. Read first two lines, $line[1], $line[2], using fgets()
> 2. Use strtotime() to convert timestamps and subtract
>     to determine the elapsed time between them
> 3. Add difference to either $U_time or $S_time based
>     upon status (S or U) in $line[1]
> 4. Set $line[1] = $line[2]
> 5. Read next line of file into $line[2]
> 6. GOTO #2
> 
> Then you'll have total $U_time and total $S_time and you can calculate
> your percentages from there.
> 
> --
> 
> ---John Holmes...
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