On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:20:58PM -0500, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: >On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:20:01 -0500 >George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'd like to use mon to manage configuration files, such >> as .procmailrc, so that the file is result of regex A >> for some periods of the day and regex B at other times. >> >> Is anyone using mon for this or similar task? how? > >mon is for monitoring, not managing. You can certainly make it do what >you want, but it will be like driving a nail with a screwdriver---the >wrong tool for the job rarely produces a pretty result.
I understand. cron is pretty much what I need, with a little atomic design in scripts, that has worked fine. I was just wondering if anyone had made config modifying scripts as a mon test and used the time module / scheduler to invoke. Or some other means with mon. >Consider looking at alternative tools like cfengine or puppet, which >are both designed for this very use. dono about puppet, but what I recall about cfengine, that is overkill for my procmailrc/muttrc files. Will take another look at them -- indeed both too big a hammer. I was just wondering if someone identified the best way to use mon to run scheduled "tasks" vs tests, though I think the best way is just as I noted above, run my scripts as tests, and even warn on failure! // George -- George Georgalis, information system scientist <IXOYE>< _______________________________________________ mon mailing list mon@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
