On Dec 21, 2003, at 18:38, epzachte@chello.nl wrote:
1 when the regexp completes it should have reached nearly end of file. 2 when the number of records read is less than on previous run clearly something is wrong
(Unless there's been a lot of deletions maybe. :)
When reading from bzip2 compressed files it's coming down a pipe; there should be some way to detect abnormal termination (non-zero return code from bzip2).
Is there any way I can make the script alert you and me when something went wrong, like sendmail ?
Hmm, I suppose. My experience with auto e-mail error systems is that they tend to send much too much data. Maybe best to write to an error log, then the backup/stats job can notify if there's something in it?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)