#!/bin/bash # Copyright (C) 2016 Ian Kelling # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. append() { cat >> "$1" } log-once() { local cbase c log x i out file cbase=/var/local/cron-errors [[ $EUID == 0 ]] || cbase=$HOME/cron-errors local help="Usage: log-once [OPTION]... LOG_NAME [LOG_MESSAGE] For cronjobs, email log on repeated failure and success after failure. Meant for use in cronjobs where LOG_MESSAGE or STDIN represents an error, but we only want to output that to STDOUT if we've seen this type of error ERRORS(default 3) number of times in a row, then we don't want to output anything again until we've seen a success (an empty LOG_MESSAGE). Logs LOG_MESSAGE or STDIN to /var/local/cron-errors/LOG_NAME\$error_count or $HOME/cron-errors if not root, and keeps state in the same directory. -ERRORS: ERRORS is the number of errors to accumulate before outputing the error" errors=3 while true; do if [[ $1 == --help ]]; then echo "$help" return elif [[ $1 == -[0-9]* ]]; then errors=${1#-} shift elif [[ $1 == -- ]]; then shift break else break fi done log_name=$1 # todo, make option & make them overridable based on command line or env variable [[ -d $cbase ]] || mkdir -p $cbase c=$cbase/$log_name # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2456750/detect-presence-of-stdin-contents-in-shell-script log=false if [[ $2 ]]; then log=true # read stdin for anything which is not just a newline elif [[ ! -t 0 ]]; then while read -r x; do output+=( $x ) [[ $x ]] && log=true done fi glob="$c[0-9]*" file=($glob); [[ $file != "$glob" ]] || file= if $log; then out=append if [[ $file ]]; then i="${file#$c}" if (( i < errors )); then new_file=$c$((i+1)) mv $file $new_file file=$new_file if [[ $file == $c$errors ]]; then out="tee -a" fi fi else file=${c}1 fi $out $file <<<"log-once: $(date "+%A, %B %d, %r")" if [[ $2 ]]; then $out $file <<<"$2" else $out $file <<<"${output[@]}" $out $file fi return 0 fi if [[ $file ]]; then rm -f $file if [[ $file == $c$errors ]]; then echo "log-once success after failure for $c" fi fi return 0 } log-once "$@"