[wellylug] CentOS maintainance

John Durham john.modec at xtra.co.nz
Fri Jun 25 08:43:08 NZST 2010


On 24/06/2010 7:16 p.m., Daniel Pittman wrote:
> John Durham<john.modec at xtra.co.nz>  writes:
>
>> This afternoon, my web server was down due to an electrical failure
>> (external to the system). It seems to have restarted once power was
>> restored.
>>
>> To be confident of full return to service and long life, would anyone like
>> to suggest the best way to maintain the server files, correct errors etc?
>> There has to be a simple command for it.
>
> Sorry, I don't think sysadmin(8) has been implemented yet[1], and that is
> pretty much what you are asking for: each service and facility on the system
> has different needs and, perhaps, different checks that are required.
>
> So, there is no "simple command" to perform all those for you.  It isn't
> technically impossible, just very hard, and no one has yet built something
> that does it all.
>
> We can probably advise if you tell us which services you are concerned about,
> though, how you would best go about checking those individual things — or
> general advise about tools that can help you build automatic self-testing of
> the system.
>
>          Daniel
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  ...and neither has the prerequisite ai(1) utility.
You may be right. Now that I have carried out the steps suggested and 
got the right responses from the server at desktop, the only other thing 
that will help at this point is to go to the link in my message footer 
to see if the web site appears when summoned.

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