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Subject: Re: Daily sysadmin tasks
From: David McCall (david.mccallSONOMA.EDU)
Date: Sat Jun 24 2000 - 15:57:40 CDT

At 06:34 AM 06/23/2000 , you wrote:
>I'm looking for some sites that have task lists of daily system
>administrator functions. Just want to verify all log files I should be
>reviewing daily.
logs are one thing, but application logs can get a bit thick. syslog and
messages
are good and then if you run daily accounting, a SAR -a on that stuff is also
good.
we've got oracle8 logs, apache logs, tangod logs, stronghold secure web server
logs,
and I run explorer from SUNWexplo every morning around 4am and ship that
tarball to a central collection server where I brouse thru the directory
structure.
I't nice to know just what applications are being run and by whom. It's often
that the application programmers just look at their own logs to discover if
their
code is doing its job, but sometimes their logs will fill up before ours will
and
the /var file system is about 2gig's and with 4-7 apps and all those logs...
I've had to do some emergency housecleaning for the ais dept. thank the
disksuite program for 'grow a file system'