I run a filemaker server on my linux box.
Now I periodically need data from that server.
I do it like this: A perl script uses net:ssh to connect to a mac and uses applescript there to start fillemaker and execute a filemaker script there to export the filemaker tables, transfering them back to the gentoo server by net:sftp and then converting them to sql.

I would very much like a method that works without having a mac running at all time with the filemaker client.

Is there any possibility to get the data directly from the filemaker database files?
Or to connect from linux to the server somehow and get the data this way?