[xymon] bb-roracle.ksh

[Buchan Milne]

On Thursday, 16 September 2010 12:12:28 Gore, David W wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:01
> > To: xymon at xymon.com
> > Cc: Gore, David W
> > Subject: Re: [xymon] bb-roracle.ksh
> > 
> > On Friday, 10 September 2010 13:48:29 Gore, David W wrote:
> > > Has anybody ported this script to ksh93?  I made some changes to get
> 
> it
> 
> > > half running but perhaps someone has done a more thorough and
> 
> complete
> 
> > > job who knows the differences between the older and newer Korn
> 
> shells?
> 
> > Have you looked at dbcheck.pl from hobbit-perl-cl (on Sourceforge)?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Buchan
> 
> I had tried dbcheck.pl a few years ago and I think it appeared more
> complicated and required database privileges that I did not have.
> Perhaps I should revisit the script and see if I have much better luck
> the second time around.

You can quite easily disable checks that you don't want, or that require 
privileges you don't have.

However, a quick look at the roracle.ksh script looks like it does pretty much 
what dbcheck.pl does by default.

Regards,
Buchan