Tip of the day: Linux script to see which reports are run during the day

[Mike Schwartz]

      Since the fP list has been a little slow, I thought I would pass along
this script I whipped up last night.  

 

      A friend who does most of his own filePro programming is changing his
printer setup.  He asked me if there was some way in filePro to capture the
name of each report that is run during a typical day.  I whipped up this
quick Linux script and he was happy with it, but I thought I would throw
this out to the group to see if any of you would have done things
differently:  

 

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>/tmp/zrptlist.txt

for i in {1..10000}                    # loop 10000 (5-second) intervals
13.8 hours

        do

        ps -ef | grep -y report | grep -v 'grep\|pv\|\/u\/reports' | grep -y
"\-f" >>/tmp/zrptlist.txt

        echo $i                                # Display loop count

        tail /tmp/zrptlist.txt      # Display last few reports that were run

        sleep 5

done

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     The script only runs every 5 seconds, so there's a slight possibility
it will miss some quick-running reports.

 

      It has a loop rather than a cron job so that the user has more control
over when it runs.  He will probably only run it occasionally.

 

      It skips reports that go to the video screen.  It skips the "grep"
line that is calling it.  It skips any of the overnight batch reports that
print to files in the /u/reports subdirectory.

 

Enjoy!

 

Mike Schwartz

           

      

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