Export variables in external monitor script

Hi Bjoern,

 

 

Try searching online for "bash export environment variable" and you'll find plenty of references to the fact that a script can only modify the state of itself and its child processes--not the process that called the script:

 

 

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-export-environment-variable-from-a-bash-script-344057/

 

 

I'm surprised to hear that you're not able to redirect output from the script to a file though. This should work. Many of the Codeshare external monitor scripts use this type of functionality to create a lock file and ensure only one instance of the script is running per pool member instance at a time.

 

 

That said, couldn't you write to /var/log/ltm and then use syslog to handle the emails?

 

 

Aaron