So how does one detect (and eventually prevent) crontab jobs on a server from running every minute? First of all, why would one ever want to control crontab? Long story short, an aggressive cron job can cripple a shared server and affect all users on such paltform. Here’s a script that crawls cron jobs and [...]
Depending on which version of Varnish you have running, there is a chance the code is still experimental and the whole Varnish daemon is prone to a fatal crash. Here is a quick and dirty monitoring script for Varnish. It essentially runs as a crontab job and requests a PING response. Should it not receive [...]
