got a linux box at work, need some ideas :)

[rick420]

They gave me a Linux box at work!


We had an extra little box lying around they were gonna just make a print server or some bull****, so I said let me put linux on it. They said ok as long as I do somethign useful to us with it.

So I went ahead and installed Apache and am working on a little intranet site for our sales team (links to product specs etc) I would like to also have it monitor bandwidth or something cool like that.

I was looking into some PHP bandwidth scripts, but they all seem to need perl or sql, and I am nowhere near a good enough web designer for that. I have good HTML skills, but thats about it. So hopefully theres a script out there that I can just change a few config lines on and have it monitor the traffic on our netopia router. Any help? Thanks!

[Ryeker]

I highly doubt that a PHP script requires perl. That doesn't make sense. It's like Linux needing Windows...

If you really want that bandwidth monitoring tool (which I don't really see a need for...), install a SQL server like MySQL. Download the binary distribution from www.mysql.com (http://www.mysql.com) and read the INSTALL file. Easy to setup. They tell you step by step what to do. Copy and paste!


Something useful for you may not be useful for me. Asking "what's useful?" probably won't give you anything useful. How about saying "Our business resells high end mobile products like cell phones, PDAs, etc. and our sales force needs an online database of inventory.". Then we can suggest using both PHP and MySQL to create a simple inventory front end available only to your sales reps on field calls... etc etc etc...