Hello Monks,

I'm trying to search logs every 2 hours for string, and if found then sendmail should kick in. I'm trying to find the best way to run my cron jobs every 2 hours without getting repetitive emails.

I decided just to search for the string, push it into my array, then change it's format so the next run for my script it doesn't catch it.

open SwitchLogs, $logFile or die "Could not open $logFile: $!"; 
while (<SwitchLogs>) {
    chomp;
    my $line = $_;
    if($line =~ m/PHY-4-EXCESSIVE_ERRORS/){            
        push(@err, "$line\n");
        s/PHY-4-EXCESSIVE_ERRORS/PHY_4_EXCESSIVE-ERRORS/g;
        $sendemail = 1;
    }
}
close SwitchLogs;

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I need help with the replace, how do I make it do the replace? Currently the script runs but still every 2 hours I keep getting the same email because the replace doesn't work. I know I'm missing something very basic.

In reply to Search logs with crontab by hmb104

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