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From: wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Consistency Checks, Nightly Scripts, etc.
Message-ID: <897@iiasa.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 90 08:42:10 GMT
References: <AGLEW.90Sep11103916@dwarfs.crhc.uiuc.edu> <9468@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: wnp@iiasa.UUCP (wolf paul)
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In article <9468@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
)In article <AGLEW.90Sep11103916@dwarfs.crhc.uiuc.edu> 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.
): 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...

Any chance of getting your own private copies, or at least a list of 
the "more" they do :-) ???
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