Are you familiar with C programming at all? Your question "...is the
hobbitd_sample.c something that I should look at for this?" almost sounds
like you may not be. You could be for a long haul if your intent is to
learn a programming language while converting your existing Hobbit shell
script into something more efficient. It's not going to be a simple
cut-paste-compile scenerio, that's for sure. Pardon me if I've interpreted
you posting incorrectly.
I was asking that to determine if is an appropriate model specifically for
an extension script. But yes, I am familiar with C programming.
Personally, I use PERL for my Hobbit server scripts, except the ones that
are the simplest-of-the-simple, and for those I do use just plain inefficent
shell. I know C as well, but find PERL to be amost as efficient for what I
do, and a heckuva lot quicker to program in.
I am considering C mostly because I'm starting to out-grow the capabilities
of simple shell programming, rather than purely efficiency reasons. Perl
would probably also work.
*From:* Gary Baluha [mailto:user-ae3e15c22de1@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:13 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* [hobbit] Server-side extension scripts: shell vs. C programming
I remember reading somewhere in the Hobbit documentation that when an
extension script starts to do a lot of things, it should be coded in a
compiled language such as C, instead of as a shell script. I have a custom
script that takes a lot of data and converts it into NCV graphs, and I
believe it is at the point where I should consider rewriting it in C.
Before I get to far into it, is the hobbitd_sample.c something that I
should look at for this? I'm not sure if I'm reading the documentation on
it correctly, if it is a good example for an external script. Has anyone
else had experience in needing to convert a shell script to C/C++/etc for
Hobbit? I'm just trying to get a rough idea of how much effort this will
require.