Re: Perl for NT

Net Master (spider@is1.alphanet.com.au)
Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:20:44 +1000 (EST)

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Dale E. Reed Jr. wrote:

> Scott Portmaster List wrote:
> >
> > Well, i have half of it re-written in c, it takes the logs and converts
> > them to semicolon delimited, a lot easier to work with, as well as
> > inputable into a lot of databases :) (Note: we go through the logs every
> > night to see who has been on for how low (usage you know) so wanted
> > something a little faster than perl for doin the job, but the parser is
> > still written in perl, one of these days, gotta re-write it...
>
> If you used RadiusNT as your accounting server, you could dump the
> accounting information into a database in real time. Getting
> results out of that is very simple and it could save a lot of time
> and hair in the long run. :)

One can do the same in Linux using Perl and Postgres and have a few
grands left in one's pocket? :-)