racount not accepting variables in shell script?

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Kiw,
   So what is the format of the file name in /var/argus/log?   One way 
to debug
your script is to print out the '/var/argus/log/packet-dump-$DATE_*.arg" 
to see
what files racount is using for input, and how that maps to the files in 
/var/argus/log.

Carter


Nyuk Loong Kiw wrote:

>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
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-----------------------
>
>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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