Linux Bash Scripting help needed

[alexandra123]

Hello,

Just wondering if anyone out there has any linux experience and can help me on the below - I am actually using Ubuntu , but it should not matter a great deal.


I created a cron job.
The cron job is running a bash.sh file every couple of minutes.
I need the bash.sh file to look at a conf file and read the status of the conf file to a log file.

Bash file code

cat 'etc/mon.conf' | more
while read line; do
echo cat "$line" >> /var/log/mon.log
done
fi
fi

mon.conf code

ps ax | grep bluetooth |grep -v grep

How do I get the bash file to read the conf file and print the service status to the log file ????

Thanks in advance

 

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[jhegarty]

Your just trying to append one file to another each time ?

If so think you are over thinking it.


This one line should do it :


cat mon.conf >> /var/log/mon.log

 

[alexandra123]

Thanks guys for the responses so far.

I actually need to print the output of the service into the log file.
for example the

ps ax | grep bluetooth |grep -v grep

should actually tell me if the service is started or stopped.

I need this status information printed to the log file. So the result would be something like
status bluetooth started

Would this help

cat 'etc/mon.conf' | more | while read line;
do
echo eval "$line" >> /var/log/mon.log
fi
done

I have added eval - to evaluate the result of the grep command ...

 

[jhegarty]

Try the script here (just replace the append the log files instead of printing to screen).