Now that might be a workable idea... Thanks! TimH
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 14:03:31 -0800 Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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) > > -- > Roger > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
