Deepan wrote: > Hi All, > I am looking for a script to check if Apache is up > and running, if not the script should send an > email automatically. The script has to be run from > a different machine (not from the machine that > runs apache). So it has to query for a http > address and if it receives any other reply that > 200 OK, it should send the email. Can you guys > suggest on how to go about ? Should I use curl ? > or wget ? or ping ? I can handle the email part > and cron part. If you guys have a similar script > please share it if possible. > Regards > Deepan I used to do this with a small bash script that used wget to fetch a very small text file from a remote web server, then check the return status "$?" of the wget command, sending an email out if the exit status was non-zero.
Very simple and worked like a champ. -- KevinO --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
