Nagios as Cron (fwd)

[Cook, Garry]

> On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 10:32, Jason Martin wrote:
>> Just to clarify, on this point I am looking for recommendations on
>> how to monitor events that occur just once a day. Log rotation is
>> just an example; there are other events (nightly shutdown of the
>> application, other maintenance activies).
> 
> If your cron isn't sending emails about that stuff, either it or your
> MTA is broken. 
 
Cron is not necessarily broken, but perhaps not optimally (for your use)
configured. Read the manual on cron ('man cron' if not familiar with man
pages), this should explain how to send an email for each cron job.

Garry W. Cook, CCNA
Network Infrastructure Manager
MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile)


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