Hi. I've just started playing with mon, and I like it a lot. Thanks much to the author[s]--- it's a great little utility.
I've got a monitoring problem which I *think* mon should be able to handle, but I haven't yet figured out how. I need to monitor file changes, but I only want to receive an alert when a file was supposed to change around a certain time and didn't. Example: My organization gets news feeds from other companies. /etc/foo.txt is supposed to be updated 3 times a day; once at 9am, once at noon, and once at 5pm. I need to get mail if those updates don't happen. In some cases, I may be expecting a whole directory full of files to be changed, and I won't necessarily know the file names; the files are intended for batch processing. Does anyone have a script that does this, or ideas for strategy? I've looked at the file-change monitoring script included with mon, and it seems to be designed to send alerts on update, rather than on not-updated. srl -- Shane Landrum (srl AT boston DOT com) Software Engineer, boston.com
