I want to make a logfile with error messages, like this:
(collumms: CUSTNR DATE TIME ERROR MESSAGE)
102 20020807 135417 1 Uptime server is more than 6 months
5 20020808 111335 3 Backup not Ok!
2001 20020808 120428 6 Free space at server1 is less than 20%
etcetera
I made this script:
CUSTNR=101
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
TIME=`date +%H%M%S`
ERROR=1
MESSAGE="Uptime server is more than 6 months"
printf "%-8s %-10s %-6s %-6s %-80s\n" $CUSTNR $DATE $TIME $ERROR $MESSAGE >> error.log
But the variabele MESSAGE is printed wrong. The logfile looks something likes this:
102 20020807 135417 1 Uptime
server is more than 6 months
One of the problems are the spaces between de words in the MESSAGE strings.
How can I solve this/these problems?