[ale] Monitoring dhcpd.leases file?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 14:49:05 EST 2015


For those interested, parsing the data in realtime, at least with Node.js,
is not viable. So this question is irrelevant.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:59 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I need to monitor ISC's dhcpd.leases file so that I can feed new leases
> into a processor (which will log them to a database). My processor listens
> for data on a Unix socket . So I'll want to feed the data being appended to
> dhcpd.leases into that socket. But I also need it to still write to the
> leases file.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might go about doing this? It's
> going to need to run non-stop.
>
> --
> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>
> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological
> personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the
> corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a
> condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>
> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
> CH:D 59
>



-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological
personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the
corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a
condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59
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