Tag Archives: sysadmin

Watching a fork bomb explode

Fork bombs are simple pieces of programming logic that can bring down the mightiest of servers in seconds (in fact, the faster the server, the faster it goes down). They are quite easy to protect against, but some operating systems … Continue reading

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Send events to Zenoss from scripts

Working at Zenoss the company, our IT group uses Zenoss the application to monitor our infrastructure. Initially, we setup the needed monitoring for various resources, added thresholds and received email alerts if there were problems. That was all well and … Continue reading

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