On Sep 6, 2010, at 5:59 AM, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Friday, 3 September 2010 00:49:30 Jason Kincl wrote:
Hello!
I am wondering if using netcat instead of bb to send status updates to a xymon server is a bad idea?
What prevents you from using bb?
In the cases where I can't install bb, I can't have netcat either, so I use perl.
Sometimes, all you have is busybox and then nc is alot more likely to be around than perl :)
This is basically what we have going on here, a box that we do not want to add extra software to if possible. Netcat is working nicely so far, thanks!
Also, perl is a hige memory hog and slow (due to disk access) compared to doing everything inside busybox sh - to I avoid perl on embedded systems or other systems with limited memory resources.
-- Kolbjørn Barmen UNINETT Driftsenter
Jason Kincl