On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Friday, 3 September 2010 00:49:30 Jason Kincl wrote:
Hello!
I am wondering if using netcat instead of bb to send status updates to a
xymon server is a bad idea?
What prevents you from using bb?
In the cases where I can't install bb, I can't have netcat either, so I use
perl.
Sometimes, all you have is busybox and then nc is alot more likely to be
around than perl :)
Also, perl is a hige memory hog and slow (due to disk access) compared to
doing everything inside busybox sh - to I avoid perl on embedded systems
or other systems with limited memory resources.
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