Re: [BAD] the whole server down with a red-alert-like attack
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:17:31AM -0500, Peter Billson wrote:
> > IMHO something that runs every minute should not be in cron, even something
> > that runs every 5 minutes possibly shouldn't be in cron.
>
> Could you tell me why that is so? I often run things from cron that
> run every 5 mins and have never run into a problem... but then again I
> often do stupid things repeatedly! :-)
Better saying: You can do whatever you want, but think before to not shoot yourself.
As I wrote or not:
- I ran my script too often
- The machine was old 486
- unfortunately conditons has changed
due this, the script was runing ten times slowly.
And the nighmare was born :)
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Radek Hnilica <Radek at Hnilica dot CZ>
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