[volunteers] Monitoring SVLUG Processes

[mark weisler]

On Jul 19, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Mark Weisler (mark at weisler-saratoga-ca.us):
>
>> I was thinking of something very simple and unobtrusive. Some  
>> solution
>> that does not require much in resource to run.
>
> Well, it can be something as simple as an external (running-elsewhere)
> cronjob that, once an hour, opens a telnet connection to port 25  
> (SMTP)
> on lists.svlug.org and attempts to deliver a canned message to
> svlug-request at lists.svlug.org with subject "help".  If it's able to  
> get
> all the way through to "250 Accept" (or whatever it is), that's a  
> really
> good sign:  That prove's exim's receiving mail.  You could in theory
> have another process that checks for getting back the canned Mailman
> help text at the first cronjob's sending address.  That proves that
> Mailman's running and that exim's sending outbound mail correctly.
>
> The jobs would have to error-trap for failures and notify somebody.
I'll pursue this as I have time. In the interim I'll perform a manual  
check a few times/day (typically when I check personal mail) to verify  
that exim is receiving mail.
Mark
>
>
> Anyhow, I think current signs are that the performance tuning I did  
> last
> night was a really good idea:  I've just received copies of the  
> mailing
> list rosters in a timely fashion (from the Sunday cronjob) for the  
> first
> time in weeks.
>
>
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