getting system info using perl

[jimberger]

hi all,

Is they anyway I can get some system information of my web server using perl commands. I have used system calls to get for example the httpd processes running, and disk space available, but is they anyway i can get the information provided by the top command.

Thanks for your help

jim

 

[raider2001]

You can run any system command in Perl. Here's some examples:

system("top n 5 > $file" # Parse $file for info
`top n 5 > $file`; # Parse $file for info
$topout = `top n 5`; # Parse $topout for info

 

[jimberger]

thanks raider.

i tried system (top -n 5 > top.txt&quot

but this comes up with the following errro in error logs

sh: top: not found

any ideas what i'm doing wrong?

thanks for your help
jim