README for SETI::Stats 1.05 $Id: README,v 1.6 1999/08/06 17:03:55 martin Exp $ by Martin Hamilton You install the module by running these commands: perl Makefile.PL make make install Description: This Perl class provides an object oriented API which lets you gather SETI@home stats from one or more machines and gives you a programmatic way of getting access to them. It can cope with multiple SETI@home clients which share a directory hierarchy accessible to the machine it is run on, clients which each have their own private filespace (using rsh, ssh or equivalent) and even works for boxes running Windows NT. SETI::Stats borrows from Jan Rocho's perlseti.pl, but differs in several ways - this is a module devoted to stats gathering rather than a general purpose control program, it can be used to monitor remote machines without even requiring Perl to be installed on them, and it provides a generic framework for access to (both local and remote) SETI@home client stats. It could also be extended to cover stats gathering from the SETI@home WWW server, though this may be better done in a separate module to avoid code bloat. Please report any bugs/suggestions to the author Copyright (c) 1999, Martin Hamilton. All rights reserved. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.