check_files

[airathere]

is there a possibility to use check_files to determine, if a file age is correct when several files in a directory exists?

e.g.:
directory "/backups/somefiles" has 7 files (7 days written at 22:50, after 7 days they will be overwritten)

if i use check_files with age-parameter like that

check_files -a path="/backups/somefiles" pattern="*.gz" filter="age > 23h" crit="count > 0" empty-state=0 empty-syntax="no old files found"

i get:
critical - 0/6 files

which is correct but not useful.
Better will be to have a parameter like "check-only-latest-file"

the directory looks like this:

-rw------- 1 root root 29809 Apr 12 22:50 0.sql.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 29809 Apr 13 22:50 1.sql.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 29809 Apr 14 22:50 2.sql.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 29807 Apr 15 22:50 3.sql.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 29809 Apr 16 22:50 4.sql.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 29809 Apr 10 22:50 5.sql.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 29809 Apr 11 22:50 6.sql.tar.gz

so only "4.sql.tar.gz" is of interest here.

Thanks for all helps!
Joe

[sni]

you could use either show-all to show all files or adjust the ok-syntax to show a more useful message. A check-only-latest-file parameter seems a bit overspecific. Maybe one day we could add
sort, limit and offset parameter to further customize the result list.