[ale] [OT] DHCPd + nmap?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 01 December 2003 03:15 pm, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> There's no shame in synthesizing something from reliable, well-known,
> and widely-used components.

Wow.  You make it sound so ... good!

It's all part of the DRY principle (Don't Repeat Yourself), I guess.

Thanks,

Michael

> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 15:12, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > On Monday 01 December 2003 01:45 pm, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> > > Anyone tied nmap together with dhcpd? I'd like to nmap scan a box
> > > whenever they accept an address from my DHCP server.
> > >
> > > What I'm unclear about is how to monitor the dhcpd logs in real-time. 
> > > I can tail the file periodically, then scan, but would prefer to do the
> > > scan as soon as they receive an address.
> >
> > I have written scripts to do this.  The quickest way I found was to run
> > tail -f logfile and pipe the output to some other script.  Both perl and
> > python make it really easy to run a subprocess like that and get its
> > output.
> >
> > I used to be embarrased by having done that, but I've since become
> > convinced that the author of tail did all the hard work.  If I were to
> > reimplement it, how would I be better for it?
> >
> > Michael
> >
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