Re: How about a system health-monitoring tool

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

Try the mon package.




On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Joe Emenaker wrote:

> 
> I was upgrading some packages last night and I broke two things, DBI and
> smail. I didn't find out about the mail one until the next morning (and boy,
> were the clients pissed...).
> 
> So, I got to thinking. Suppose we made a directory called, say,
> /usr/lib/healthcheck or something. Package maintainers could write a little
> script that tests their package for proper function and put it in that
> directory. Then, we could have a utility that runs periodically which would
> run each of those scripts in turn and alerts the sysadmin in some way if any
> of them indicate a problem.
> 
> For example, the smail package could try sending mail to itself. The DBI
> package could try connecting to a test database on the system and doing a
> query. You get the idea.
> 
> Does this tool already exist, or has someone already brought it up and it's
> been shitcanned? What?
> 
> - Joe
> 
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George Bonser

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