Consistency Checks, Nightly Scripts, etc.

[Larry Wall]

In article <AGLEW.90Sep11103916 at dwarfs.crhc.uiuc.edu> aglew at crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) writes:
: 
: In my experience administering systems I found that a regular set of
: consistency checks run by cron was most useful.
:     Now that I'm hopefully out of the sysadmin role, I still find that
: regular consistency checks, etc., run by /usr/cron or omicron, are
: useful.  Moreover, I often find myself recommending to present-day
: sysadmins of little experience that they write a whole slew of
: consistency checks.
: 
: My question is: what is a fairly complete list of consistency checks,
: file scans, etc., that can be regularly run?  Here's a short list
: of the top of my head; I inivite additions.

You might check out the scan scripts that come in the eg directory of
the Perl distribution.  They do some of this stuff.  My own private
copies do more...

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov