samba - Jun 2005 - Possible new addition to Samba, looking for advice / help.

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All,

Not 100% sure if this is the place to pose this, but I had an idea that
wouldn't add too much bloat to Samba, but would help smaller-network
admins like myself monitor what's going on on their network a bit closer.

I keep top running in a ssh window on my box to keep an eye on the
server.  However, I'd like to have Samba information instead of ps -A...
 So here's the project:

Alter smbstatus -b to list number of files (or shares?) open.

Create a modified version of top (smbtop?) to use the output from
smbstatus -b instead of ps -A.

Modifying top shouldn't be too hard, even with my limited C knowledge I
could probably handle that.  smbstatus might be a little more difficult.

Would enough other people use this, or should I bother?  I will forewarn
everyone that this will be the first non-"hello, world" coding (HTML
doesn't count) that I've done since 1989.

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Chad Vincent
DermaMed Coatings Co.
cvincent@dermamed.net
Ph.330-633-8216
Fx.330-633-2461
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> Create a modified version of top (smbtop?) to use the output from
> smbstatus -b instead of ps -A.
This would be interesting;  and may be possible, since there are
supposedly language binding (python at least) to the Samba API.  But
I've never been able to find any documentation.