Stoppt die Vorratsdatenspeicherung! Jetzt klicken &handeln! Willst du auch an der Aktion teilnehmen? Hier findest du alle relevanten Infos und Materialien:

Archive for December, 2008

Automate ‘periodic daily’ e-mail reading

Many systems send status e-mails from their periodic {daily,weekly,monthly} cronjobs. But just as with log messages you probably stop reading them because there are too many mails (one or two mails per day and host) and they are very repetitious (on healthy systems they should not change too much). — This demands automation.

A simple solution is to eliminate variable fields from the periodic output and only send an e-mail if the output is different from the expected or the previous output.

Read the rest of this entry »