2011/04/12 12:50:24|red|florida
2011/04/12 15:20:21|green|tampa
2011/04/12 15:30:12|red|miami


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#!/usr/dist/share/perl,v5.003/5bin.sun4/perl
use Time::Local;
$today = timelocal(localtime);

$mailprog = "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t";      
$lst_email = 'someone@outthere.com';             
                                        
open (DATA,"/mylist.log") || die ("Can't Open data File: $!\n"); 
@data=<DATA>;

foreach $line (@data) {
	
	
	($datestamp, $status, $location)=split(/\|/,$line);

my $lastaction = &date_to_unix($datestamp);

if (($today > ($lastaction - 216000))  && ($db =~ 'red') ) {

MAILIT
close DATA; 

sub date_to_unix()
{
    my ($year,$mon,$day,$hour,$min,$sec) =
        $_[0] =~ /(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)\s(\d+):(\d+):(\d+)/;
    return undef unless ($day and $mon and $year);
    return timelocal(0,$min,$hour,$day,$mon-1,$year-1900);
}


open (MAILIT, "$mailprog") || &cgierr("Can't start mail program");
    print MAILIT "To: $lst_email\n";
    print MAILIT "Subject: $location is stuck  \n\n";
    print MAILIT "$location light has been red for more than an hour \n\n";
    print MAILIT "please check it. \n\n";
 
    print MAILIT "Here are the info\n";
     
   print MAILIT "$datestamp and $location"; 
      
          close (MAILIT);