Re: Alert if file contents are greater than 40

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Thursday 10 January 2013 4:24:27 pm Jenny Hopkins wrote:
> Hullo,
>
> I've been having an issue with memory hungry programs so
> have written a script that takes a user and program
> params and stuffs the memory usage into a file as an
> integer. This is run by cron every ten minutes.
> I want monit to keep an eye on the file contents and
> alert if it exceeds a certain figure.
> So far, I can only find evidence that monit supports text
> file matches. I've tried
>
> "check file memfile.irssi with path /tmp/memfile.irssi
> if  match "[4-9][0-9]" then alert"
>
> but this doesn't seem to work. I'm adding a \n to the end
> of the file.
>
> Sorry if this has been asked before.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jenny
>


Er, Jenny. not to diss the capabilities of Monit, but why 
don't you simply extend your script to send out an email 
alert based on a memory usage threshhold?

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