RE: [PHP] Best Approach

sure, why not....you can exec most of the commands and log all of the results to a file that you can email yourself bastien ---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:55:11 -0600 > From: miguel.guirao@mail.telcel.com > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Best Approach > > Hello fellow members of this list, > > There is a couple of rutinary tasks that our servers (different platforms) > perform during the night. Early during the day, we have to check that every > task was performed correctly and without errors. Actually, we do this by > hand, going first to server A (AIX platform), and verifying that the error > logs files have a size of zero (0), which means that there were no errors to > report on the logs, verify that some files have been written to a specific > directory and so on. As I told you before, this is done by hand, many ls > commands, grep’s and more’s here and there!! > > On the other hand, I have to do this on a another Windows 2003 server!! > > So, I’m thinking on creating a web page on PHP that performs all this tasks > for me, and my fellow co-workers. But, all my experience with PHP is about > working with data on MySQL server, wrting files to a harddisk, sending > e-mails with or without attachments and so on. > > Is PHP a correct approach to solve this tedious problem?? Can I access a > servers and get the results of a ls command for instance?? > > Best Regards, > > __________________ > Miguel Guirao Aguilera, Linux+, ITIL > Sistemas de Información > Informática R8 - TELCEL > Ext. 7540 > _________________________________________________________________