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Some perl tools for you to play with...

WOTS

WOTS is a tool for monitoring logging output from multiple sources, and then generating actions and reports based on what is found in these logs.

WOTS is listed at perl.com's reference, at freshmeat, and at Stokely.

Other Monitoring Tools

WOTS is not the only monitoring tool around and it doesn't do everything.
Competition and cooperation produce better tools.

Download WOTS...

stable version of WOTS 1.xx is 1.22.
wots-1.22.tar.gz
The Next Generation?
I think the current incarnation of this tool has gone as far as it can. The next task is to go modular and distributed. There's no point bloating WOTS to the point of uselessness.

PWENT

PWENT allows you to access parts of the passwd nameservice from shell scripts and to format the output in various ways using "%" modifiers à la printf().

Example (find some startup file from "tools" user):

#!/usr/bin/sh
homedir=`pwent %d tools`
rcfile="$homedir/.toolrc"
echo $rcfile

    ==> /home/tools/.toolrc

Download PWENT...

pwent-dist.tar.gz

Usual disclaimer...

All of the above are provided without any warranty and if any of these tools breaks something on your system, it's not my fault.

Contact...

Bug reports, suggestions, praise etc. are welcome at tony_curtis32@yahoo.com