Re: Script to check Apache

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Im going to go with the deceptively simple approach:
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> $ps -A | grep httpd | wc -l

in the case of apache 2 swap 'httpd' for 'apache'.

-jmz

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> that assumes you have access to the server of course.
>
> checking active ports remotely can be done with nmap.
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> -jmz
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> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:54 AM, KevinO <kevin@kevino.org> wrote:
> > 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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