Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jpl-devvax!lwall From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Consistency Checks, Nightly Scripts, etc. Message-ID: <9468@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 11 Sep 90 19:54:29 GMT References: Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 20 In article aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) writes: : : In my experience administering systems I found that a regular set of : consistency checks run by cron was most useful. : Now that I'm hopefully out of the sysadmin role, I still find that : regular consistency checks, etc., run by /usr/cron or omicron, are : useful. Moreover, I often find myself recommending to present-day : sysadmins of little experience that they write a whole slew of : consistency checks. : : My question is: what is a fairly complete list of consistency checks, : file scans, etc., that can be regularly run? Here's a short list : of the top of my head; I inivite additions. You might check out the scan scripts that come in the eg directory of the Perl distribution. They do some of this stuff. My own private copies do more... Larry Wall lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov