Daily and Weekly Periodic Scripts

[Matthew Seaman]

On 02/22/17 09:32, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
> For what it's worth, in a similar situation I simply have a cron
> triggered script that greps certain files (or the output of certain
> utilities) and fires off an email if it finds/doesn't find certain
> things. Very simple and flexible, and it keeps nagging if I don't do
> anything about it. I keep thinking of doing something more gala, but
> over many years I've found this actually works for me.
> 

If anyone is looking for a project, teaching hte daily / weekly /monthly
scripts to produce output in a machine parseable form, like JSON or UCL
suitable for injecting into a system like logstash would be pretty useful.

As it is, the nightly email generated by FreeBSD don't scale well beyond
a few dozen machines.  If you're dealing with an installation of that
size, you'ld be better off redirecting hte output to a log file on the
server and then setting up appropriate monitoring to tell you about any
problems as they occur -- eg. through nagios or icinga or the like.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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