Re: Cron syntax help...

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:56:48 +0100, Walter Mautner wrote:

> Ivan Marsh wrote:
> 
> ...
>>> Ever thought about nagios?
>> 
>> I'm actually working on implementing Nagios.
>> 
>> This little project is a stop-gap measure to get people to stop
yelling
>> at me. Though I'm not sure if Nagios can do what my script is doing.
It
>> uses the mysql command line client to check if new records have been
>> added to a database in the last fifteen minutes. So it's not just
>> checking for connectivity or if the service is available it's also
>> looking for the most recent data in the database. Haven't got quite
>> that far into Nagios yet.
>> 
> You can put every scriptable thing that gives a reasonable returncode,
> into nagios :)

Cool! It's my script so I certainly have control over what it returns.

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Ivan Marsh wrote:

...
>> Ever thought about nagios?
> 
> I'm actually working on implementing Nagios.
> 
> This little project is a stop-gap measure to get people to stop yelling at
> me. Though I'm not sure if Nagios can do what my script is doing. It uses
> the mysql command line client to check if new records have been added to a
> database in the last fifteen minutes. So it's not just checking for
> connectivity or if the service is available it's also looking for the most
> recent data in the database. Haven't got quite that far into Nagios yet.
> 
You can put every scriptable thing that gives a reasonable returncode, into
nagios :) 
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