So I'm trying to track running processes on a vanilla linux box with no hard drive.

What I've got so far is a small bash script that grabs my numbers, does a few calculations on them, saves them to a text file and uses lftp to put them on my machine running mrtg.

Now the problem here is this server has a flash card for a hard drive, so I don't want to write this text file every 5 minutes to it.

Can anyone think of a way to pipe the output of my script to lftp (or similar) without ever writing it locally to the servers filesystem?

Putting a ramdrive on the machine or just running mrtg on the machine are out of the question.. :P

-scoob8000

You could do something over NFS or SSH for sure....

NFS is pretty much out of the question since this is such a vanilla server.

What were your thoughts on SSH?

-scoob8000