Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3434 mails)

[Sandy Drobic <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Monday 2008-02-18 at 16:43 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
>
> > I was fed up with the number of emails that I got from the original 
> > script (I update every hour and the script sent the status each time. 
> > So I disabled the email for "clamav is up-to-date". I still got too 
> > many status mails, so I finally decided to only send an email if a 
> > problem occured.
>
> Why don't you simply log it to syslog? Using "logger" calls in the script.

Because my policy is that all systems should actively report if a problem 
occurs. I don't want to log in to a system and then analyse the log when a 
user tells me that something is wrong.
My time is limited and there are too many systems to monitor, that's why I 
make the system send me an email when something happens. It's much faster to 
read an email than to log on and see if anything has happened. Also I have to 
remember to check the system. It's too late if the smoke is already filling 
the room and the rats are leaving ship. (^-^)

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Sandy

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