My initial thought would be simply to have a series of test programs to verify everything that you need. Then set up a cron job and just run 'em through Test::Harness and pipe the output to your favorite mail program.
perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests(glob "/path/to/tests/*.t")' 2>&1 | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think much special work would need to be done. I've heard that Test::Cmd works pretty well. I was reading that just a few days ago, but I can't remember where I read that (grr ...) Cheers, Ovid --- "Randal L. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It occurs to me that that if I wanted to build a health check > watchdog for my system (a script that executes at regular intervals > to ensure proper operation), that the Test::* mechanisms would > be pretty ideal for checking the results and reporting the proper > errors. > > I can't be treading new ground here. Has anyone done this already > and could pass along pointers, or better yet, working code? > > [Aside - is Test::Cmd considered current tech? It hasn't been updated > in two years... is there a better way?] > > Thanks. > > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! ===== Hire me! http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/personal/resume.html Silence is Evil http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/philosophy/indexdecency.htm Ovid http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=17000 Web Programming with Perl http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
