The Life of a Sysadmin

Carousel is a lie!

Zounds
Mon Dec 7 16:19:57 PST 2009

Busy day:

Tonight, bed at 8.30pm. And there's no shame in that.

Tags: geekdad, work.

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re: Mailman
Use snmp. I've had some servers that had crond dying frequently.

$ snmpwalk -v 2c -c COMMUNITYSTRING REMOTEHOST hrSWRunPath | grep crond
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPath.3501 = STRING: "crond"

And now I know that crond is running safe and sound with a PID of 3501.

I use it to monitor my domain authentication daemons and various other services that I don't want to have to spawn a remote shell to find out.

Sometime when you're bored, setup snmp on your local machine and just page through the snmpwalk output. It's amazing how must stuff is shown.

I had the same problem with Drupal cron.php files when I was using wget to run cron.php. I just ended up using -O /dev/null to eliminate wget writing a file to the filesystem.