[lug] Automatic removal of cron job by cron script

[Nate Duehr]

On Nov 2, 2007, at 8:17 PM, David L. Anselmi wrote:

> But wouldn't Big Brother, Nagios, or one of the other monitoring  
> tools be better to use?  (I keep telling people they don't want to  
> reinvent applications and they keep telling me no, they really do.)

Those systems "done right" are a joy to use.  Done wrong, they're a  
paging, beeping, constantly whining nightmare flood of messages.  :-)

Ultimately monitoring isn't usually "done right" anyway... the  
criteria for adding things to monitoring systems is all wrong in most  
organizations.  Everything gets monitored.

Realistically -- only things making or saving the company money need  
to be monitored.  The rest can wait until the on-call person can be  
found.  That'll probably stir up some controversy, but it's true...

At the end of the day, if an internal system is down it's an  
inconvenience.  A public system that makes the company money (e-mail  
servers still fall into this category, of course) that is down, is a  
business continuity problem.

Two very different things.

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Nate Duehr
nate at natetech.com