On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 11:55, Matt Roth wrote: > List users, > > Please provide me with tips on how to replicate a single file to a > separate machine as changes are made to it. I would prefer a method > that reacts to file modifications (ie. FAM/gamin) as opposed to timed > loops/polling (cron + rsync). I'd also like to avoid NFS altogether. > > Keeping resource consumption low on the source machine is a priority. A > bit of research has lead me to believe that calling rsync when gamin is > alerted to a file modification would be a good fit for my scenario, but > I'm unclear on the easiest implementation. > > My scenario is as follows. I have a machine that runs Asterisk VoIP PBX > software. Asterisk creates a log file that we generate reports off of. > Another machine handles the generation of these reports, which involves > significant number crunching and file I/O. By replicating the file on > the reporting machine, I'd like to decouple the resource consumption of > reporting from the VoIP server. Some of the reports are used to monitor > activities in realtime, so cronning off rsync on a large time interval > is not an option. Can you get Asterisk to log things via syslog? If you can then you can use syslog to send that information to a remote server. Then you run your reports on the log on the remote system.
