Workaround Cern for Amanda status

Category:	Archiving/Backup utilities
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Description:	This was created because the webserver is ancient that runs the internal operations page and cannot run cgi as it's owner So I couldn't create this as cgi(that's what our previous web- master told me). So this program runs as root and still gives the same information. It's a specific solution to a specific problem, but you never know who may find it useful.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w #What the script does: #Checks the status of the tape drive #Then places that information into an html file. # only without having to worry about the fact that # the webserver can't run the command as it's owner. (CERN) # May not be a problem with Apache. # Comments and script written April 14, 2000 use strict; #Sucking the output from amcheck and placing it in #the varialble $status. open (AMCHECK, "/your_path_to_amcheck/amcheck -s SETNAME \|"); my $status = join "",<AMCHECK>; close (AMCHECK); #This displays the time # placement is important here because # it gets the time right after the status was retrieved # more precise output than stating when the script was run as in $^T my $time = localtime(time); #The $color changes depending on TRUE : FALSE my $color = $status =~ /error/i ? "#FFBBBB" : "#BBFFBB"; chomp ($status); #Opening the tape-status.html file for writing open (STATUS,">/your_path_to_status_page/tape-status.html"); #Print html to a file print STATUS <<EOF; <HTML> <TITLE>Tape Drive Status</TITLE> <HEAD> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <CENTER> <FONT SIZE="+3" FACE="impact">Tape Drive Status</FONT> <BR> <FONT COLOR ="red"><STRONG>Tape Check Last Run</STRONG> <BR> $time </FONT> <BR> <HR> <P> <TABLE><TR> <TD BGCOLOR="$color"> <FONT SIZE="+1"> <B> <PRE>$status</PRE> </B> </FONT> </TD></TR></TABLE> </CENTER> </BODY> </HTML> EOF close (STATUS); #system("system_command") forks another process and is costly. #It's nice of perl to have SOOOO many alternatives. chmod 0666, "/path_to_this_page_again/tape-status.html";

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