The Cult of Gary

There’s another good discussion forming around where to put your crontabs on the SAGE mailing list.
On linux based systems, there are typically 4 places to stick your crontabs:

Where ever crontab -e puts them on your system (per user crons)
/etc/crontab
/etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.weekly and /etc/cron.monthly
/etc/cron.d

My opinion is that crons should go into /etc/cron.d only. They should ideally [...]

There is some discussion on the SAGE-members list regarding network monitoring solutions. The first post was about Zenoss vs. Nagios. I haven’t been involved in the conversation, I’ve only been lurking. 
I have maintained a few Nagios installs, usually configured via fruity. Before my Nagios/Cacti days, I ran a couple of large mon installs. 
I’ve been unsuccessful and [...]

Of all the mailing lists I’m on, sage-members has the greatest solutions:noise ratio. It’s basically 1:0. There are about 3 or 4 threads a week with a lot of really great advice.
For instance, this poster seems to have solved his problem. The other threads on the list are also interesting, possibly because they are so [...]