> -----Original Message----- > From: Wiggins d Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 28 February 2004 4:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Module to pull Netstat summary information? > > Please bottom post.... > > > This works however I was hoping perl had a module so I > didn't have to > run a system application. I've been playing around with > modules such as > scp, telnet and ftp. I'm curious if there is one for netstat. > > > > thanks :-) > > > I am still new to working with Perl myself but I think I > know the anwer > > > to this one... > > > > > > #!/bin/perl > > > > > > use strict; > > > use warnings; > > > > > > my $cmd = system('netstat -s')or die "Could not run command: $1"; > > > my $cmd = system('netstat -a | grep tcp')or die "Could not run > command: $1"; > > > > > > HTH > > > Jas > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a CPAN module to pull netstat summary > information from a > system? > > > > > > > > Rather than run 'netstat -s', I was hoping to find some > way within > perl. > > > > > > > > What I basically want to do is generate a couple of reports from > the summary > > > output. ICMP and TCP information. If someone can point me in the > right > > > direction I should be good to go :-) > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > It appears netstat just reads the values from /proc/net and > prints them > in a nice way, so presumably you could use standard opens on the /proc > files and read specifically what you want rather than having netstat > parse them for you. Though this might actually be one of the places > where shelling out makes sense. CPAN didn't turn up much...
/proc is not available on most OS's. Mind you 'netstat' isn't worth much on some of them either. Are you developing for Linux? A generic Linux PROC handler might be they way you go. Want to achieve CPAN developer status? :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
