Script to check Apache

[KevinO]

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.

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KevinO