>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:21:44 -0400, "N.J. Thomas" <[log in to unmask]> said:

[ ... ]

Oy. 

Well, I really appreciate the feedback; My own investiagtions had only
turned up things which felt like a swiss-army-toolbox when I thought I
wanted a screwdriver.  Your kind advice is well taken, but it sounds
sort of like "No, you need a swiss-army HUMMWV!", With all the
toppings.  Don't get me wrong: I'm a nagios True Believer.  But..


crepe ~ # emerge -p cacti              

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.18  
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/webapp-config-1.50.15  
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libmcrypt-2.5.7  
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/php-toolkit-1.0-r2  
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/t1lib-5.0.2  USE="X -doc" 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-db/mysql-init-scripts-1.2  
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.39  
[ebuild  N    ] net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.2.15-r3  USE="perl python -doc -rrdcgi -tcl (-uclibc)" 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.26-r2  USE="berkdb perl ssl -big-tables -cluster -debug -embedded -extraengine -latin1 -max-idx-128 -minimal (-selinux) -static" 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/php-5.2.1-r3  USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli crypt gdbm iconv ipv6 kerberos ldap ncurses nls pcre readline reflection session spell spl ssl truetype xml zlib -adabas -apache -bcmath -birdstep -calendar -cdb -cgi -cjk -concurrentmodphp -ctype -curl -curlwrappers -db2 -dbase -dbmaker -debug -discard-path -doc -empress -empress-bcs -esoob -exif -fastbuild -fdftk -filter -firebird -flatfile -force-cgi-redirect -frontbase -ftp -gd -gd-external -gmp -hash -imap -inifile -interbase -iodbc -java-external -json -ldap-sasl -libedit -mcve -mhash -msql -mssql -mysql -mysqli -oci8 -oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl -pdo -pdo-external -pic -posix -postgres -qdbm -recode -sapdb -sharedext -sharedmem -simplexml -snmp -soap -sockets -solid -sqlite -suhosin -sybase -sybase-ct -sysvipc -threads -tidy -tokenizer -unicode -wddx -xmlreader -xmlrpc -xmlwriter -xpm -xsl -yaz -zip -zip-external" 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/PlRPC-0.2018  
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Sys-Syslog-0.18  
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/mysql-5.0  
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/DBI-1.53  
[ebuild  N    ] net-analyzer/cacti-0.8.6i-r1  USE="apache2 -apache -snmp -vhosts" 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-3.0008  



"I'm looking for link reliability monitoring"

		 "You need all the power of PERL -AND- PHP.
		  and mysql. 
		    aaaaaand RRD.  Also. 
		      Oh.  and this chair. 
		        and... a wafer thin mint."

I'm going to go hide, and cook something up in shell.


- Allen S. Rout
- Bucket!