[hobbit] creating a report of all the notifications sent by hobbit

[Ralph Mitchell]

On 2/6/07, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
> I think all you need is a Perl script to prompt for the start time, then
> have it read the notification log, skipping everything that is older
> than the entered time.  You will have to parse each notification entry
> for the notification time, convert it to an internal format, and then
> compare to the time you get from the form.
>
> You might be able to do it in shell, but I am not sure what could be
> used to convert times into something that can be compared.

If you're on a system with the GNU 'date' program, you can feed it a
date and use the format string to get seconds-since-the-epoch:

e.g.   date +%s  --date="2/6/2007 14:00"

give you:     1170792000

Then you can do math on that using expr.

I'm using that for tracking SSL cert expiry.

Ralph Mitchell