Notifications - How to extract hostname/ip adress

[Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold]

Jeremy Kister wrote:

>Since the script would connect to the db on each run (it wasnt
>daemonized), I found that when argus had one too many notifications, all
>my perl brought the machine down to it's knees, and I havent put forth
>any effort to redesign it.
>  
>

One possible re-design would be to write a perl "daemon" that does a
constant tail on a file.  Write the notification to the file and the
"daemon" should handle the rest.  No perl startup needed.

Just a thought.  :)

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