#!/bin/bash # This daemon (endless loop) constructs user-readable scheduler # logs once per minute. It runs with a 3-minute latency. # To run this script as part of the standard BOINC backend # components, just include: # # makelog.sh # # in your config.xml file export lastmin=dontmatch while [ true ] ; do # we extract the logs from 3 minutes ago, because the cgi # process can run for a couple of minutes. export currmin=`date --date="-3 minute" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'` # create correct filename, directory name, path, etc. export oneword=`echo $currmin | sed 's/ /_/'` export filename=${oneword}.txt export dirname=`echo $filename | cut -b 1-13` export dirpath=../html/user/sched_logs/${dirname} if [ ! -d $dirpath ] ; then mkdir $dirpath fi export filepath=${dirpath}/${filename} # if the minute has changed, or the one-minute log file does not exist, # then create it. One must consider both cases otherwise log rotation # can screw things up. if [ "${currmin}" != "${lastmin}" -o ! -f "${filepath}" ] ; then # put some text into the start of the 'human readable' log file echo "Note that all times in this file are in UTC. To compare with your BOINC logs" > $filepath echo "you will need to convert your local time into UTC. To make comparison easier you" >> $filepath echo "may also want to consider using a high-precision time protocol such as NTP to set your" >> $filepath echo "computers clock. This will allow comparisons of the time stamps to fractions of" >> $filepath echo "a second." >> $filepath echo " " >> $filepath echo "These files are posted approximately three minutes after the events are logged." >> $filepath echo " " >> $filepath echo " " >> $filepath # now grep for all log entries from 3 minutes ago. Use sed to hide any sensitive info # such as authenticator and IP address. Must grep --no-filename "${currmin}" ../log_*/cgi.log ../log_*/cgi.log.0 | \ sed 's/authenticator .*//g; s/\[auth [^]]*\]//g; s/from [0-9.]*//g; s/auth [0-9a-f]*\,//g; s/\[IP [0-9.]*\]//g; s/\[USER#[0-9]*\]//g; s/IP [0-9.]*\,//g' >> $filepath export lastmin=$currmin else # if the minute has not changed and log file exists, sleep a bit and # try again sleep 15; fi done # this is an infinite loop, so we should never get here!!