Well, being the dedicated type that I am, I wrote a script over my Thanksgiving break at my Mom's house. It worked great. It would scan through the hosts file for interesting hosts, query the hosts for active information, and build an MRTG configuration around it. Some of that can be done with existing indexmaker, but I had coded in configurable variables so that it could accommodate ports that were up/down, up/up, or down/down for various amounts of time and keep the data or shred it. Know what I did with it earlier today? I deleted it. Completely accidentally... deleted. I felt ill. There's no "recycle bin" in Unix. There's no "undelete" command.

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