Here's a new idea for a custom monitor: the Sluyter-check (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach
*sigh* You know how sometimes things can get cross-wired in your brain in a permanent fashion? So that every time you want to do A, you do B? I've one of those and I've already made the mistake twice at $CLIENT. One of my colleagues already suggested the idea of making a Sluyter-check monitoring script ^_^;Here's what happens. For about a year now the commands "nslookup" and "hostname" have been mixed up in my head. I -know- what each command does, but I always type "hostname", when I want to do "nslookup". In most cases I quickly backspace and type the right command, but so far I've fscked up twice :/
For those not in the know:
* Nslookup is used to find the network address for a computer.
* Hostname is used to change the actual hostname for a UNIX computer.
Renaming a server on the fly can lead to some serious problems, especially if it happens to be part of a cluster. Well, guess what I did yesterday and -didn't- notice? Yea... ;_;
I'll start working on that monitoring script now... *hangs head in shame*
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