{"id":3670,"date":"2013-05-21T00:47:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T22:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2013-05-21T01:57:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T23:57:01","slug":"technical-help-needed-for-a-script-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=3670","title":{"rendered":"Technical help needed for a script issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I need some technical help, for the reason that I am not a programmer and I never have. I guess that I never am going to be one, since I lack the talent of doing numerical math (I possibly have dyscalculia<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I problem is this, I run a internal counter on my local server. This counter helps me by telling me the total number of earthquakes during the day, week, month and a year in Iceland, it is really useful when large earthquake swarm takes place. <\/p>\n

I used Gentoo Linux<\/a> on my server, but I have now moved over to FreeBSD<\/a> for technical and practical reasons. The move to FreeBSD did work as I expected, with the exception of this counter, it does not work in FreeBSD, I do not get any reading to mrtg<\/a> (the counter software). The script I have been testing work when run from command line, but when I run the cron job on them. Nothing more happens and no data is handed over to mrtg.<\/p>\n

Here are the scripts,<\/p>\n

#!\/usr\/local\/bin\/bash<\/p>\n

#earthquake count shell V0.0.6<\/p>\n

URL=”http:\/\/hraun.vedur.is\/ja\/englishweb\/eqlist.html”
\nTODAYSDATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
\n#TODAYSDATE=`date +%Y\/%m\/%d`
\n#TODAYSDATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`<\/p>\n

COUNT=`lynx -dump ${URL} | grep ${TODAYSDATE} | grep -vi updated | wc -l`
\n#COUNT=`wget -O ${URL} | grep ${TODAYSDATE} | grep -vi updated | wc -l`
\necho ${COUNT}
\necho ${COUNT}
\n#echo ${COUNT}
\n#echo “uptime”
\n#echo “hostname”<\/p>\n

exit 0\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This script does not give me any error, but no data is handed over to mrtg as it did in Gentoo Linux. I do not know why that it and I have been unable to resolve this issue.<\/p>\n

The second script I was testing is this one here, more details and discussions can be found here<\/a> on FreeBSD<\/a> forum.<\/p>\n

#!\/usr\/local\/bin\/bash<\/p>\n

#earthquake count shell V0.0.7<\/p>\n

URL=”http:\/\/hraun.vedur.is\/ja\/englishweb\/eqlist.html”
\nTODAY=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
\nHOURS=`date +%H`
\nMINUTES=`date +%M`
\nOUT=”$TODAY.txt”<\/p>\n

NOW=`echo “($HOURS * 60) + $MINUTES” | bc`
\nEARTHNUM=`wget –quiet -O – $URL | grep $TODAY | grep -vci updated`<\/p>\n

if [ $OUT ]; then
\n touch $OUT
\nfi<\/p>\n

echo “$NOW $EARTHNUM” >> $OUT<\/p>\n

exit 0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When run in mrtg, I get this error here. The script runs without a issue when run it from command line.<\/p>\n

2013-05-20 22:46:09: WARNING: Could not get any data from external command ‘\/usr\/local\/etc\/mrtg\/eq.imo.sh’
\nMaybe the external command did not even start. (Illegal seek)<\/p>\n

2013-05-20 22:46:09: WARNING: Problem with External get ‘\/usr\/local\/etc\/mrtg\/eq.imo.sh’:
\n Expected a Number for ‘in’ but nothing’<\/p>\n

2013-05-20 22:46:09: WARNING: Problem with External get ‘\/usr\/local\/etc\/mrtg\/eq.imo.sh’:
\n Expected a Number for ‘out’ but nothing’<\/p>\n

2013-05-20 22:46:09: ERROR: Target[localhost_eq][_IN_] ‘ $target->[0]{$mode} ‘ did not eval into defined data
\n2013-05-20 22:46:09: ERROR: Target[localhost_eq][_OUT_] ‘ $target->[0]{$mode} ‘ did not eval into defined data<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am bit lost what is the issue here, since the script works from command line. If anyone out there has any idea what this might be. A help is most welcomed in this matter, since I am no programmer at all and I have little understanding on how to deal with this problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I need some technical help, for the reason that I am not a programmer and I never have. I guess that I never am going to be one, since I lack the talent of doing numerical math (I possibly have dyscalculia). I problem is this, I run a internal counter on my local server. This … <\/p>\n

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