Re: Comparing localtime to a remote file's modification time.

I'm collecting our department's little monitoring scripts that do various "watching" of Solaris, OSX, and Linux server directories.

I suggest you take a look at Cfengine, which is a "tool for setting up and maintaining computer systems". It's incredibly powerful, and will allow you to control your systems, enforce rules, check status, etc.

Licenced under GNU GPL.

Andreas
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Re^2: Comparing localtime to a remote file's modification time. by baerlun (Initiate) on Oct 24, 2006 at 16:39 UTC
I've just been browsing the Cfengine's functionality actually! Thanks for the advice... now to convince the entire department to scrap our home-grown solution ;)	[reply]
Re^3: Comparing localtime to a remote file's modification time. by andreas1234567 (Vicar) on Oct 25, 2006 at 08:34 UTC
In this ONLAMP article, Æleen Frisch, author of Essential System Administration, ranked Cfengine #1 in her Top Five Open Source Packages for System Administrators. The article illustrates parts of what can be done with Cfengine. You may very well incorporate your custom shell or perl scripts with Cfengine, but as for basic task such as maintaining file permissions, monitor disk usage etc, go for the in-built functionality. I highly recommend Cfengine to any *nix system administrator. Andreas --	[reply]