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Daily System Administration Checks

Every morning we check the systems; moby, neptune, starfish, seahorse,
and orca; by running top to look for any errant processes chewing up CPU
cycles.  We find on occasion, maker5X.exe, netscape, or rt_ios processes
that need to be killed.  The processes maker and netscape require a "kill
-9" to terminate them.

We look for file systems that are running low on free space, usually a
home directory structure where a developer has pulled in a large amount
of source code.  We then need to talk with the user.  On occasion we
remove the backup files for documents created Framemaker.  Check the
system; neptune, starfish and moby by doing:
    df -k -F ufs

We check the "/var/adm/messages" log file for any indication of system
problems.

The file system /ctuboot gets filled up by log files created by the CTU
systems.  The developers clean this up when it stops them from doing
their development work.

We execute a crontab utility every night on the servers neptune, moby,
and starfish that finds and removes core files from the home directories
and CM system areas.  Every Monday morning each user who's home
directory is located on the systems moby, neptune, and starfish gets a
disk space table for all the users on that system.  Peer pressure does
help to keep down the amount of disk space used.  Administration crontab
files are located at "/usr/local/etc/crontabs", except for the back up
scripts.