Updated: 06/05/2006

Perl storable module to persist data to disk

Came across the following challenge this week, how do I easily persist data between two independent UNIX sessions. Usually I d store data in a db or maybe ldap, but I only want to keep maybe a days worth and on multiple servers. In this article, I show two scripts - one which writes using the Perl Storage module and the other that reads. Each call to write, adds to a data file. Which is then extracted from by the read script. I include possible uses, for example recording restarts of a given service. In this instance I did n''t want services restarting multiple times, where manual recovery of data would be needed. Also generating multiple alerts and notifications, but again looking to throttle them to a given number of iterations over 24 hours.

• Categories
  • CGI and Perl →
  • Scripts and Programs →
  • Database Tools
• Tags
  • manual perl,
  • perl by example,
  • perl example,
  • perl manual,
  • perl scripts,
  • perl services,
  • unix manual
• Platforms
  • Linux,
  • FreeBSD,
  • Sun Solaris
• Licenses
  • Freeware
• Author
  • Marcus