From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 14:57:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camelot.bitart.com (BITart-45.BITart.com [206.103.221.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CC3337BD5A for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:57:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gerti@bitart.com) Received: (qmail 6643 invoked by uid 101); 26 Jun 2000 21:57:12 -0000 Message-ID: <20000626215712.6642.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148) In-Reply-To: X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.2mach (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148) From: Gerd Knops Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:57:11 -0500 To: Andy Farkas Subject: Re: Would a 'remote system administration' mailing list make sense? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: gerti-freebsdq@BITart.com References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andy Farkas wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Gerd Knops wrote: > > > I administer about 40 FreeBSD systems remotely, meaning they are > > far away, and the people at the location (if there even are any) > > usually are not experienced at all with Unix. > > I have a stupid question: do you get 40 'daily reports' plus 40 more > 'security reports' every day? If so, do you read them, or just > d,d,d,d,d,d,d,d.....? > Well, actually that is exactly the kind of questions that would be interesting to discuss. How do people deal with that? As you describe? Or shut down the messages in the first place? Or come up with some intelligent script that compares the output to expected data and only reports when something seems out of the ordinary? Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message