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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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] [mailto:dddugan@iastate.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 21, 2012 10:50 AM<br><b>To:</b> Russell Blumenthal; xymon@xymon.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: dnsreg script question<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Russell Blumenthal [<a href="mailto:rblumenthal@telmar.com">mailto:rblumenthal@telmar.com</a>] <br><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></div></div><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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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] [<a href="mailto:dddugan@iastate.edu">mailto:dddugan@iastate.edu</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 21, 2012 9:05 AM<br><b>To:</b> Russell Blumenthal; <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: dnsreg script question<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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></div></div><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></div></body></html>