From: Douglas McNaught <doug@...>
Date: 2006-07-09T06:51:37+09:00
Subject: Re: storing and using references to variables

Russell Fulton <r.fulton@auckland.ac.nz> writes:

> To the world at large: I really enjoying playing with Ruby -- I've got a 
> couple of weeks off work (Information Security Officer at a large 
> university) so I have time to do some programming.   Hopefully you will 
> see the results up on Rubyforge before too long.  I am working on yet 
> another program for scanning and managing syslog data - my system's 
> claim to fame is that it will handle real time and periodic scanning as 
> well as long term mantainence with all the configuration data stored in 
> one place in an easy to understand configuration file.

<first delurk>

I'd love to see that--we're (a) evaluating Ruby as an "approved"
scripting language where I work, and (b) are not super-happy with Red
Hat's defafult logwatch setup (our machine build scripts have to patch
the shipped scripts because they let too much noise through, and I
hate doing that).

-Doug