To be able to view log files or the last X number of lines from them. my $last_X_lines = `tail -nX'; # where X is the number required

Save to a new file if you want to FTP down just that part of the file.

Rotate theses files on demand instead of waiting for logrotate (some machines don't have it).

Net::Telnet - and do it manually.

Retrieve different files from different servers.

Net::FTP

before I make it 'safe' to do

Then I guess you'll be using SSH rather than Telnet :)

Of course, I'm lazytm, so I'd write a perl script to do everything from the server, FTP it up and run it through Telnet when needed, rather than the other way round (I don't know and can't be bothered to learn shell scripting :). assuming there aren't firewall issues, the scripts can then post/FTP the required data to a script/server somewhere where you can host web based scripts/FTP server.

.02

cLive ;-)

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