[xymon] alternative to bb command

[Jason Kincl]

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

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Jason Kincl