The logic is that you are testing the log file for a specific condition. You create a starting condition that assumes that everything has gone well and would result in a green button. The idea is that if you get to the end of the file without hitting one of your two tests then everything was OK.

You read the file one line at a time looking for either DOWN or PROBLEM. When one of these tests work, you set the button response accordingly and use last to leave the while loop and do something with the outcome.

You may only be reading 5Mb of files but this translates into a much larger use of memory. It also involves the computer reading the file line by line anyway as it puts it into memory. If your match is on line 20 of a 2000 line file, your script only needs to read 20 lines and you are done.

If you continue to have trouble, post your code in the replies.

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