[Gllug] Re: Accesing files over the network with perl

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis]

Just some feedback. I tried some of the suggestions and in the end
came up with a solution that works quite well for our scenario.

I have a xinetd entry on our data provider servers. This calls a
simple script which parses the log files with grep looking for certain
strings writing to stdout.

I then on another machine connect via a perl script to these xinetd
sockets and then generate the needed reports. It works quite well and
is simple to. I doubt if anyone will be, but if there is any interest
I can email the relevant files to you should you want to do something
similar.

On 10/17/05, Gerhardus Geldenhuis <gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I am looking for a way to access files over the network with perl every 15 min.
>
> I can't use NFS and I can't use FTP to copy the files over.
>
> Basically what I am trying to do is filter through our inhouse
> applications logfiles scanning for certain entries. The application
> runs on various machines and I need a centralised script that can scan
> through these various files.
>
> I do have a working script in perl, but it was written with one
> machine in mind is not designed to run on more than one machine. The
> script thus needs to see all the files as if they were in one place.
>
> The logfiles on each machine are regularly archived and/or deleted,
> thus copying the logfiles is not ideal because it creates additional
> files that would need to be "managed".
> --
> Groete
> Gerhardus Geldenhuis
> Registered Linux User #193352
>

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Groete
Gerhardus Geldenhuis
Registered Linux User #193352
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