building a watchdog

2003-07-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
It occurs to me that that if I wanted to build a health check watchdog for my system (a script that executes at regular intervals to ensure proper operation), that the Test::* mechanisms would be pretty ideal for checking the results and reporting the proper errors. I can't be treading new ground

Re: building a watchdog

2003-07-21 Thread Ovid
My initial thought would be simply to have a series of test programs to verify everything that you need. Then set up a cron job and just run 'em through Test::Harness and pipe the output to your favorite mail program. perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests(glob "/path/to/tests/*.t")' 2>&1 | mail

Re: building a watchdog

2003-07-21 Thread darren chamberlain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Randal L. Schwartz [2003-07-21 13:21]: > It occurs to me that that if I wanted to build a health check watchdog > for my system (a script that executes at regular intervals to ensure > proper operation), that the Test::* mechanisms would be pretty i

Re: building a watchdog

2003-07-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Darren" == Darren Chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darren> * Randal L. Schwartz [2003-07-21 13:21]: >> It occurs to me that that if I wanted to build a health check watchdog >> for my system (a script that executes at regular intervals to ensure >> proper operation), that the Test::