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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Email monitoring
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:44:50 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:17:58 -0400 (EDT) Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Should we set up a dummy email list that I can send to in an automated
> > way every hour?  If I don't get a reply in X minutes I can send out an
> > alert to people.
> 
> That could be (if needed) easier done with the existing monitoring
> system. But i'm all for a working mailinglist solution instead some
> workarounds to check a non-functional setup.
> 
> Bruce: if you setup such a system you (but nobody else) knows about a
> problem. What use will be this system, if you are offline, away or just
> sleeping? So we need some more people sending mails periodically and
> check the result. This will result in a lot overhead and i assume in
> some false (and some true) positives.

I assumed a failure would be reported to the new pgsql-emergency email
list.

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