Nagendra Mishr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 7 October 1999 at 12:48:55 -0400
>
> Does anyone know the best way to monitor running Systems? I.e. I want
> to know that somthing is wrong with the system... Is the best way to
> read the logs?
"Best way" is always a red herring. Reading the full logs will give
you the most information, and use the most time. Developing patterns
for something like swatch to read the logs for you, and refer possible
problems to your attention, will use less time, but may miss
unexpected situations. It's also useful to have another system try an
SMTP session (and POP if you're suppporting that) regularly, and page
you if it fails; this can notify you *sooner* if something gets
wedged.
(And with qmail you probably want to run matchup from qmailanalog, and
then some of the statistics scripts, and read their output regularly.)
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