racount not accepting variables in shell script?

[Nyuk Loong Kiw]

Hi,
 
I am trying to setup a cron job to generate daily traffic usage report
etc. What i realised is the total_bytes will just keep incrementing
everyday. My script look soemthing like this:
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------
DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)

echo
"#######################################################################
##" > /var/argus/reports/TotalTraffic/TT-$DATE
echo "#"TOTAL Traffic for all networks >>
/var/argus/reports/TotalTraffic/TT-$DATE
echo
"#######################################################################
##" >> /var/argus/reports/TotalTraffic/TT-$DATE
echo "" >> /var/argus/reports/TotalTraffic/TT-$DATE
/usr/local/bin/racount -L0 -r /var/argus/log/packet-dump-$DATE_*.arg >>
/var/argus/reports/TotalTraffic/TT-$DATE
echo "" >> /var/argus/reports/TotalTraffic/TT-$DATE
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-----------------------

What looks like happening is the $DATE variable isn't passed to racount
properly (ie racount is actually counting total_bytes of all log files
in the /var/argus/log instead of just log files for that particular
day).

Eg let say the DATE variable has a value of 2006-03-21

Result for /usr/local/bin/racount -L0 -r
/var/argus/log/packet-dump-$DATE_*.arg >>
/var/argus/reports/TotalTraffic/TT-$DATE is :

racount    records       total_pkts         src_pkts         dst_pkts
total_bytes        src_bytes        dst_bytes
    sum   22412761        630445145        331301236        299143909
326612253380     128178277503     198433975877


If I replace $DATE with 2006-03-21, eg /usr/local/bin/racount -L0 -r
/var/argus/log/packet-dump-2006-03-21_*.arg >>
/var/argus/reports/TotalTraffic/TT-$DATE , I get a different result:

racount    records       total_pkts         src_pkts         dst_pkts
total_bytes        src_bytes        dst_bytes
    sum   11217404        346379902        179915579        166464323
187187102441      71521495695     115665606746


I am pretty new in shell scripting etc. Have I done something wrong? Is
this a known problem? I did a search in the argus achived mailing list
and can't seem to find anything related.


Thanks


Kiw
 
 
 
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