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From:       swatch-users-request () ucsb ! edu
Date:       2002-09-05 19:00:01
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Today's Topics:

   1. Installation of Swatch under RH 7.x (Jonathan Johnson)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:27:19 -0500
From: Jonathan Johnson <Jonathan.Johnson@minnetonkasoftware.com>
To: swatch-users@ucsb.edu
Subject: [Swatch-users] Installation of Swatch under RH 7.x

Dear Swatchers,

First off, some idle flattery:  swatch is tops.  :)

I've been using swatch 2.2 using a 161-entry .swatchrc file, integrated
into an audit_script that I execute as a root forced command under
SSH.  Combined with a cvs -nq update on configuration files and some
other watchdog activity, it first reviews the week so far with:

  swatch -p 'sort -Mm /var/log/{maillog,messages,secure}'

and then continues in real time:

  swatch -t '-q /var/log/{maillog,messages,secure}'

This has been in constant use on a Red Hat 6.0 box; I run it via SSH
through our firewall so that I can monitor (and sometimes make a remote
copy of) the logging of critical functions.  Many times I have rescued
users from problems, calling or e-mailing them before they were even
aware of what their problem was!  Proactive system administration at
its best.  :)

Anyway, I'm determined to carry on this tradition on the server that is
replacing the 6.0 box.  Now that I'm using Red Hat 7.2 (and 7.1 at
home), though, I'm having a very difficult time locating and installing
the right pieces.

Red Hat, for whatever reason, has stopped supporting swatch since the
6.2 release of powertools.  :(

So these are the options as I see them:

+--- Certainty index (0 = hopeless, 9 = outrageous confidence)
| +- Preference level (0 = this will keep me up at night, 9 = cool)
| |
v v File:source                                         Notes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
8 4 swatch-3.0.4.tar.gz:~eta/swatch
5 6 swatch-3.0.4-1mdk.noarch.rpm:rpmfind.net            Current -- compatible?
8 4 Time-HiRes-1.35.tar.gz \
8 4 File-Tail-0.98.tar.gz   \
8 4 TimeDate-1.1301.tar.gz   >:cpan.org                 Not sure how to use
8 4 Date-Calc-5.0.tar.gz    /
6 7 perl-Date-Calc-4.3-6.i386.rpm  \
6 7 perl-File-Tail-0.95-6.i386.rpm  \
6 7 perl-TimeDate-1.08-6.i386.rpm    >:RH 6.2 CPAN      Install in site_perl/5.005
6 7 perl-Time-HiRes-01.20-6.i386.rpm/
7 8 perl-Date-Calc-4.3-10.i386.rpm    \
7 8 perl-TimeDate-1.10-10.i386.rpm     >: RH 7.1 CPAN   Most compatible
7 8 perl-Time-HiRes-01.20-10.i386.rpm /
5 6 perl-Date-Calc-5.0-15.i386.rpm   \
5 6 perl-TimeDate-1.10-14.i386.rpm    >: RH 7.3         Install in vendor_perl/5.6.1
5 6 perl-Time-HiRes-1.20-14.i386.rpm /
7 5 swatch-3.0b4-1.noarch.rpm:RH 6.2 powertools         Old versions, wrong doc path

What a headache...I'd like to remain RPM-based, but maybe I can't here.

For the perl modules, the only RPM for perl-File-Tail is from RH 6.2.
The RH 6.2 files should all work together, but they are older versions
of the modules and don't comply with the 7.x /usr/share/doc path.

I'd like to use a SRPM for building a 7.x RPM with swatch-3.0.4.tar.gz,
and use the RH 7.1 CPAN RPM's where possible, but perl-File-Tail from
6.2.  I don't know what impact the site_perl/n.mmm may have...

Obviously other people have done this (unless the withheld support from
Red Hat has thinned the ranks considerably).

Or I could just go on using the 2.2 version...  :P

TIA,

  Jonathan

-- 
 /       Jonathan R. Johnson       | "Every word of God is flawless." \
 |    Minnetonka Software, Inc.    |                 -- Proverbs 30:5 |
 \ johnsonj@MinnetonkaSoftware.com |  My own words only speak for me. /

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