I need to parse dhcpd.leases to store data in mysql

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Fri Jun 30 13:14:51 UTC 2006


Brent L. Bates wrote:

>      Could the syslog output be of any help for the person trying to log
>everything to his MySQL data base?  He could have all this output sent to its
>own log file.  I know the default output doesn't have all the information he
>needs.  However, are there any `ifdefs' that might turn this information on
>and log it?  If not, how difficult would it be to modify the source to do so?
>  Just some ideas.

A good point. Another option would be to use the "on <action> ..." 
external links, eg "on commit <call code to add record to database>". 
Though care needs to be taken when using these not to introduce too 
much latency into the server.

Simon


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