Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:57:11 -0500 From: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would a 'remote system administration' mailing list make sense? Message-ID: <20000626215712.6642.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006270450140.20207-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006270450140.20207-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
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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
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