08-10-2010
Can we assume that you have a number of servers where the mail normallly works, and you need to know whether the mail is still working?
Let's home in a bit more:
What version(s) of HP-UX?
Are you definitely using "sendmail" for your mail transport?
Checking the entire mail service every 10 mins is paranoia for an Operating System which can work reliably for years. What sort of faults have you experienced which might make you want to do this?
We do run a basic monitor from cron every 15 mins to check count the number of mail items in /usr/spool/mqueue . On this busy machine should the count exceed 50 we raise an alert.
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
comsat
DESCRIPTION
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FILES
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