Unix tip: Scanning your messages file for warnings (take 2)

By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com

Several weeks ago, I encouraged readers to automate the extraction of warning messages from their /var/adm/messages (or /var/log/messages) files and provided a script to do just that. In this article, we will look at a re-implementation of that script. The new version of this script was written by Jared Still, Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist and author of "Perl for Oracle DBAs". ...continue reading 'Scanning your messages file for warnings'