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Re: Remote admin.



Just one thing: It should not scream if httpd is dead, it should restart
it. It is more... efficient.

On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Itamar S.-T. wrote:

> I am soon going to have to set up a web server which I'm going to have to 
> keep running remotely, possibely by giving instructions to some 
> technician who's going to be there.
> 
> What I'm going to do is:
> 1. have two copies of everything including root filesystem on two 
> seperate harddisks in case one of them fails, and boot diskettes.  Is 
> there any way to make it automatically boot off the second drive if the 
> first one fails?
> 
> 2. send me e-mail notification at every shutdown and startup.
> 
> 3. have a script once an hour to ping the server, and check the the httpd 
> is running, and scream bloody hell if they're not working.
> 
> Can you thing of anything else / any tips which might help?
> 
> 
> 
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> Itamar S.-T.                                               itamars@ibm.net
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