Having the PID doesn't tell you anything about whether or not the process is capable of serving requests.
For that, you will have to create a script and run it in a cron job that makes a request to tomcat every so often (every minute?) and checks to see if a valid response was received. If not, restart tomcat using the PID. There are any number of monitoring programs out there, UN*X-based or Windows, that, given a URL, can determine if a valid response was received. I usually create a small servlet that does nothing but output a string that says "I'm OK" or something similar. Then the monitoring script looks for that text string in the reply, and behaves accordingly. John Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aas.com -----Original Message----- From: Laura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tomcat PID: alive or not Hi all, well with a Perl script I have found the PID Tomcat and I write it in a tomcat.pid file. With this PID how can I know if Tomcat is alive or not in a script? My purpose is to check if Tomcat is alive and if not I restart Tomcat. The problem is that with PID Tomcat I don't know how to check if Tomcat is alive. Can you help me? Thanks for your help Laura -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
