argus-2.0.0Q, RA clients that buffer and dump data.

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Chris,
   ra does that so you can pipe data into other programs,
like sort and ragator and the like.

   In the situation you propose, Unix is controlling the
file descriptors at this point, and so it will not recover
from you renaming the file.  Nothing you can do.

A strategy would be for your script to do the move and
then run ra against the new file.

Your script could do this:

   mv file newfilename
   ra -r newfilename > asciifile

Carter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Newton [mailto:newton at unb.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 2:06 PM
> To: Carter Bullard
> Cc: Argus (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: argus-2.0.0Q, RA clients that buffer and dump data.
> 
> 
> I just gave it a quick whirl, and the only problem I see, is that:
> 
>  ra -w file -S servername
> 
>   dumps the data out to 'file' in argus format.  I had 
> expected that the argus 
> daemon would do that, but expected ra to dump in the same 
> format that it dumps 
> to stdout, when no -w is given.
> 
>   So, if I do:
> 
>  ra -S servername > file
> 
>   and then, move that file every XX seconds, will ra still 
> handle this 
> properly?
> 
> Chris
> 
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