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but the goal is to check every 5 minutes for 30 mins back :)

so if for example now is 17:15 you want to read the file back to 16:45 and note if theres a string you are interested in

and at 17:20 you are supposed to check back to the 16:50 timestamp and note if theres at least 1 string in that timeframe

and if i understood you correctly (perhaps i didnt ? ) your solution would only "run" (the logical AND) every 30 mins

and to further complicate matters, this script cant run as a daemon/process that continously runs :)

this is a Hobbit (monitoring tool like BigBrother, Nagios, etc) check, and as such can only run when Hobbit execs it (each 5 mins in this case) :)

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