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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The line in your last message is incomplete. The whole command is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">$XYMON $XYMSRV "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Which translates to something like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">/home/xymon/server/bin/xymon 1.2.3.4 "status+9000 domain.com.dnsreg green Fri Sep 21 11:45:06 CDT 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Domain domain.com expires on 30-Nov-2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Which means the ‘xymon’ program is sending to the xymon server on 1.2.3.4, everything in double quotes. Which happens to be a status message for host domain.com, test dnsreg, green status, then the extra text
of the date, blank line, “Domain ….”. When the test appears in the web pages the status will be reflected and the extra text will be shown on screen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cheers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Russell Blumenthal [mailto:rblumenthal@telmar.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 21, 2012 11:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dugan, Darin D [EIT]; xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: dnsreg script question<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Ok let me tweak it around. What does this line do anyhow? I keep seeing that pop up and then the error about command being not found<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">"status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [</span><a href="mailto:dddugan@iastate.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">mailto:dddugan@iastate.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 21, 2012 10:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Russell Blumenthal; </span><a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">xymon@xymon.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: dnsreg script question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Rereading your message, it seems perhaps $XYMON or $XYMDISP are not populated. Are you running this under xymoncmd to set the environment? I run from cron daily with:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">/home/xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd --env=/home/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg /home/xymon/server/ext/dnsreg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">A few other differences in my script:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">1.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m using $XYMSRV instead of $XYMDISP. Hmm…I don’t have a $XYMDISP anywhere, maybe $BBDISP wasn’t updated to $XYMSRV properly?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">2.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Added a “sleep 60” command before “done”. Whois seems to get angry with me if I query a bunch of domains in quick succession.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">3.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Had to modify the sed commands for EXPIRESTRING:<br>
EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^\s*//' | sed -e's/\s.*//'`"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cheers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Russell Blumenthal [<a href="mailto:rblumenthal@telmar.com">mailto:rblumenthal@telmar.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 21, 2012 8:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dugan, Darin D [EIT]; <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: dnsreg script question<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I installed ‘whois’ and I am able to do a manual query ‘whois domain.com’. but unable to run the script manually to test it.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Dugan, Darin D [EIT] [</span><a href="mailto:dddugan@iastate.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">mailto:dddugan@iastate.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 21, 2012 9:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Russell Blumenthal; </span><a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">xymon@xymon.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: dnsreg script question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m guessing you don’t have ‘whois’ available or in the path.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a> [<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Russell Blumenthal<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] dnsreg script question<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am having an issue trying to get the dnsreg script working. I install it and all and when I go to test it I get this (I took out my domain). Any help would be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">./dnsreg.sh: line 31: status+90000 mydomain.com.dnsreg red Thu Sep 20 17:27:42 EDT 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Domain mydomain.com expires on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">: command not found<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The script looks like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#!/bin/sh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"># Check DNS registrations in whois and warn when they are about to expire.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"># NOTE: Requires a "whois" command that knows what servers to query.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"># Requires GNU date.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"># Should run only once a day.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NOW=`date "+%s"`<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">WARNTIME=`expr $NOW + 864000` # 10 days<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ALARMTIME=`expr $NOW + 432000` # 5 day<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">/home/xymon/server/bin/xymongrep dnsreg | while read L<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">do<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> set $L<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> DOMAIN=$2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e's/^[ ]*//'`"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> EXPIRES=`date --date="$EXPIRESTRING" "+%s"`<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> if test $EXPIRES -le $ALARMTIME<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> then<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> COLOR=red<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> elif test $EXPIRES -le $WARNTIME<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> then<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> COLOR=yellow<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> else<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> COLOR=green<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> fi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> $XYMON $XYMDISP "status+90000 $DOMAIN.dnsreg $COLOR `date`<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Domain $DOMAIN expires on $EXPIRESTRING<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">done<o:p></o:p></p>
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