egghelp/eggheads community

reading last line of logfile

2008-07-16T10:09:53-04:00

I think what Sir_Fz was referring to, was to write a script that is capable of recovering from an unreachable host by itself, rather than requiring your whole bot to be restarted...

As for your question, run a crontab with a simple bash-script, something like this:

Code:

if test ` tail -n 1 somelog | grep "couldn't open socket: host is unreachable -c` -ne 0 then kill -9 `cat pidfile` ./configfilefi

(Modified from a script I used to track apache-logs, might need further modifications...)

Of course, this is only one way of doing it with bashscripts, you could probably write something equivalent in tcl, perl, C, etc

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:09 am

reading last line of logfile

2008-07-15T20:52:43-04:00

it's not the script - its just the website sometimes causes it to do that.
but thanks for the useless reply anyway.

Statistics: Posted by NewzLive — Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:52 pm

reading last line of logfile

2008-07-15T07:48:49-04:00

That's the worst way for solving this problem. Obviously, this is not a normal behavior for the bot. You should try to fix the script which is causing the problem.

Statistics: Posted by Sir_Fz — Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:48 am

reading last line of logfile

2008-07-14T21:14:54-04:00

Hi there - I'm occasianally getting error messages to do with reading web pages and the only way to resolve it is to kill/restart the bot.
I'm wondering if there's a way to read the last line of the eggdrop.log file every few minutes, and if it detects this:

couldn't open socket: host is unreachable

then kill the bot?

Thanks in advance.

Statistics: Posted by NewzLive — Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:14 pm