remote file system monitoring

[chintan491]

i am trying to monitor the file system .. i had written the following code ..

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use SGI::FAM;

my $conn = new SGI::FAM;
$conn->monitor( "/var/log/messages" );

while (1) {
my $event = $conn->next_event;
print $event->filename, " ", $event->type, "\n";
}

this is working perfectly for local machine but how do i get it working for remote machine ..???

[dkeav]

could you be a little more specific? you want the script to run on a remote computer and the output back to the local computer right?

[ncsuapex]

Or he may want to run it locally but connect to a remote computer to get the results..

[chintan491]

well either of the two could b gud enough ..
but i would prefer the script to on my system and connect to the other system and run it over there ..

[ncsuapex]

well you would need to provide us with more information on the remote computer.

Can you connect remotely to this computer?

How do you connect to this computer?

I think you would need to edit this portion of the script to have the path to the connection on your remote computer.

"/var/log/messages"


It would need to have the path to your remote computer.

Im going to assume you want to monitor a file system on a remote linux machine.

j

[dkeav]

presonally i think i would just modify the script and syslog on the computers, put the script on the remote computer, add it to a cron job to run every so many minutes or as a daemon maybe, then syslog can report it to your local syslog daemon on your workstation, you could then have any number of clients all reporting to the same place

[happybunny]

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