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Subject: Re: Mon? (or a substitute monitoring daemon)
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Hey Bill,

> If not, what do folks recommend for service monitoring?

monit[1] and monitord[2]. I mainly use FreeBSD and OpenBSD boxes right 
now, and I couldn't get monitord to run on OpenBSD, so I've switched to 
monit. There's a security warning roaming about on monit and http, so 
don't get bitten.

For remote services, look at nefu[3]. It does dependencies (yay!) and is 
a breeze to set up (yay again!). Dunno about nagios.

[1] http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/
[2] http://www.freebsd.org/ports/sysutils.html
[3] http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/nefu/

HTH... Nico