Hi Robert

On my site http:/mian.homepage.dk I have korn shell script, nbu_fail_rep, that 
among other things do that. 
See the part which starts with cat $TMPFIL3 and creates $TMFIL5 and $TMPFIL6

Regards
Michael
NBUSCRIPTS

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Fra: Robert L. Harris <Robert.L.Harris AT rdlg DOT net>
Til: Veritas-BU <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Dato: 21. november 2001 18:48
Emne: [Veritas-bu] Notification script...


>
>
>  I have an odd one.  I'm hoping someone can chime in with a pre-cut wheel.
>I need to send out notification via email to a list conserning the backups
>for the last 24 hours.  I have a script that prunes the log for the last
>24 hours at 7:00am (backups finish at 5:00am) and then looks for non-0 
>exit codes.
>
>  This has been working very well except for a few odd ocasions where a
>job is re-run after 7:00am and has a failure.  
>
>  The most common problem of this is one of the DBA jobs that runs at 
>10:00am.  The report generates based on yesterday morning instead of
>this morn/last night.  Yesterday the 10:00 had problems due to missing
>media.  The job was successfully re-run around 11:00 with no problems.
>The script ran happily at 7:00 am this morning and saw the 10:00 failure
>and reported a failure.  We had to go back to the DBA's and Managers
>and explain it.  Either way it sounded bad because the report showed
>the failed backup, even if it had been fixed an hour after it failed.
>
>  Is there a way to tell reports to give the last instance of a job
>running or does someone have a script that'll do some sorting like
>this?
>
>Robert
>
>
>
>
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>FYI:
> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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