[lug] Automatic removal of cron job by cron script

[karl horlen]

> Rather than use a file (is that a semaphore?) I'd
> check that the alert 
> script is running.  If something has killed it, it
> gets restarted when 
> the cron runs.  You could also have the monitor kill
> the alert when the 
> problem clears (but maybe it needs to stop sooner
> than the next cron run).

I'll give this a look.

> 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.)

You're probably right.  I haven't used Nagios before
though.  Since I'm only really needing to monitor this
one condition I thought a simple cronjob would be more
practical.  Maybe it's time to dig in and learn it.


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