Re: weblog checking - yes, checking for nasties coming from the outside is important...and would make a nice addition to any periodic monitoring of a website. I need to add that to my monitoring program...

This only complements your note about avoiding impending doom. I'd rather get warned about impending doom 2 minutes before it happens...rather than finding out about it 10 minutes AFTER the moment of doom. I guess that's also a quality of a good sys admin.

(I'm not a sys admin, though. Just a programmer. But my company doesn't seem to see a reason to hire a full-time sys admin for our 6 sun boxen + > 300 users. Guess that's why I get very little REM sleep... ;)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: HTTP Daemonology by clearcache
in thread HTTP Daemonology by jlongino

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.