Comments on: Shell script to check / monitor domain renew / expiration date http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-monitor-domain-expiration-renew-date.html This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amir Nasirhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-monitor-domain-expiration-renew-date.html#comment-175422 Amir Nasir Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:31:50 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-monitor-domain-expiration-renew-date.html#comment-175422 nice idea bro, thanks for sharing this nice idea bro, thanks for sharing this

]]> By: Ham'shttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-monitor-domain-expiration-renew-date.html#comment-160905 Ham's Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:42:49 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-monitor-domain-expiration-renew-date.html#comment-160905 For me, this is the simplest script ! Very good, thanks ! For me, this is the simplest script !

Very good, thanks !

]]> By: Joe Peledhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-monitor-domain-expiration-renew-date.html#comment-153166 Joe Peled Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:16:45 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-monitor-domain-expiration-renew-date.html#comment-153166 Here's my twist on that script - this can be ran periodically (daily/weekly/etc) and used to notify of domains expiring - can be called by nagios, etc. <pre>#!/bin/bash if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then echo "usage: $0 " exit 1 fi domain=$1 expiration_days=$2 msg= expiration_string=`whois "$domain" | egrep -i 'Expiration|Expires on' | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}'` if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "ERROR executing whois for the $domain domain - $expiration_string" exit 1 fi expiration_epoch=`date --date="$expiration_string" '+%s'` rightnow_epoch=`date '+%s'` seconds_left=`expr $expiration_epoch - $rightnow_epoch` days_left=`expr $seconds_left / 86400` if [ $days_left -le $expiration_days ]; then rc=1 msg="WARNING" else rc=0 msg="OK" fi echo "$msg - $domain expires in $days_left days" exit $rc</pre> Here’s my twist on that script – this can be ran periodically (daily/weekly/etc) and used to notify of domains expiring – can be called by nagios, etc.

#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
        echo "usage: $0  "
        exit 1
fi
domain=$1
expiration_days=$2
msg=
expiration_string=`whois "$domain" |  egrep -i 'Expiration|Expires on' | head -1  | awk '{print $NF}'`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        echo "ERROR executing whois for the $domain domain - $expiration_string"
        exit 1
fi
expiration_epoch=`date --date="$expiration_string" '+%s'`
rightnow_epoch=`date '+%s'`
seconds_left=`expr $expiration_epoch - $rightnow_epoch`
days_left=`expr $seconds_left / 86400`
if [ $days_left -le $expiration_days ]; then
        rc=1
        msg="WARNING"
else
        rc=0
        msg="OK"
fi
echo "$msg - $domain expires in $days_left days"
exit $rc
]]> By: Miguelhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-monitor-domain-expiration-renew-date.html#comment-105797 Miguel Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:42:40 +0000 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-monitor-domain-expiration-renew-date.html#comment-105797 Hi, really cool idea! It happened to me many times... and I am really stupid that I never thougth about this simple solution.... Thanks :) Miguel Hi,
really cool idea! It happened to me many times… and I am really stupid that I never thougth about this simple solution….
Thanks :)
Miguel

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