[wplug] cpu load?

[Bryan J. Smith]

Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> You said you can trap a process and send yourself an alert.
> How exactly is this done?

SNMP.  Some vendors have some excellent Linux agents for their
hardware.  For others, you've gotta get into net-snmp hacking.

> On another matter I was wondering how people handle reading
> their root mail, I get like 100 messages a day from logging
> programs and I can't keep up with it all.

Basic syslog consolidation, auditing, etc... at work here.

In your case on mail, just use POPS (POP-SSL ;-) in your favorite
mail reader!  If you don't want to POP from the root account (using
its password) redirect or forward root mail to another account.



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