Re: Information System

David Young <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.cu-wireless
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:47:00AM -0600, Ralph Johnson wrote:
> qmail also comes as a set of programs, and is a lot smaller
> than sendmail even if you include everything.  The SMTP client
> is just a few hundred lines of C code.  However, if you are
> making a specialized client, it can be even smaller.  SMTP is
> just ASCII text over a socket.  You just open a socket to the
> SMTP server and push a message over it.  It should be easy to
> dump a log to a SMTP server with your favorite scripting language.

Re: favorite scripting language.  Before anybody writes new scripts for
the C-U Wireless nodes, I should mention that the only script interpreters
that will be available on a node are awk and Bourne shell. I am partial
to Python, but its interpreter is great big. Compare:

> ls -l /bin/sh
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  127843 Mar 12 04:05 /bin/sh
> ls -l `which awk`
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  255137 Mar 12 03:50 /usr/bin/awk

> ls -l `which perl`
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  698244 Sep 11  2003 /usr/pkg/bin/perl
> ls -l `which python2.2`
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  725348 Sep 11  2003 /usr/pkg/bin/python2.2

Dave

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