Around Fri,Dec 13 2002, at 12:12, Tim Howe, wrote: >I have a heavily used web server that has been deciding to simply stop serving pages >for up to 20 minutes at a time... I have already tried all manner of Apache and OS >tweeks to stop this but nothing seems to work. Restarting the server puts everything >back on track. What I would like to do, until I find a real fix, is have a Perl >program try to connect to that machine on port 80, and if it fails to get a page >within, say, 5 seconds, to restart the server. >I have found a bunch of modules that will ping and or connect to web servers, but >none of them seem to have a good way to time the response. Any suggestions? > wget had a timeout function. could you write a perl that uses uses a system call to wget with a timeout of say 30 seconds, if successful, do nothing, if unsuccessful reboot (or notify)
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