[snips-users] hostmon-client.linux & /proc/

[Daniel MacKay <daniel at bonmot ca>]

Hello!

Modern versions of Linux have several files in /proc/ which can be 
consulted for  almost any data.

I was wondering if anyone had thought of rewriting 
hostmon-client.linux to use the info out of there instead of parsing 
it out of, e.g. "uptime" or "vmstat" output.

I was thinking of a subroutine that you pass the /proc/ filename and 
the parameter you want, and it returns the value, so e.g. the line to 
collec the data for SwapSpace could be:

	print "SwapSpace: " . &procinfo("meminfo","SwapFree") . "Kbytes\n" ;

Is anyone interested in such a thing? -dan
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Daniel MacKay
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, +1 902.499.0488