On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:
>
> > i just looked over the script again, and no where does it actually invoke
> > pflogsumm. are you sure you correctly copied the script?
>
> Joe,
>
> I also see that the script checks for /usr/local/bin/pflogsumm, but
> thought it then called that in lines 52 or 59. Turns out it is much later
> --
> at the end of the script.
>
> > that open paren probably was to contain the cat, running the program,
> > maybe some other gunk and then it would have all been piped to sendmail.
> > can you go double check that something didn't eat your program?
>
> Originally there was more after the EOF about missing Date::Calc. Since
> that's installed here I removed those lines and, apparently, the closing
> parenthesis. And, as it turns out, I cut out too much. The missing lines
> are:
>
> LC_TIME=C ${EXECUTABLE} ${OPTIONS} ${LOGFILE} 2>/dev/null
> echo "Report ended with status: $?" ) | ${SENDMAIL} ${SENDMAIL_OPTS}
>
> which also fixes the missing closing parenthesis.
>
> A test run worked. However, those missing lines were in the script until
> I
> took them out this morning, and the script still doesn't run each day as it
> should.
>
> Thanks very much for prompting me to look more closely at what I cut out.
> I'll see if the script runs tomorrow. If not, I'll be back and post the
> error log again.
>
>
If you really wanted to speed up the troubleshooting process, add a cron job
entry to
execute it every five minutes ( or some such to allow you to look at the
logs and make changes).
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