On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 17:40, Ed Wilts wrote: > The easiest method is to simply do: > $ wget -q http://whatever.com/index.html >/dev/null > $ echo $? > > If you get a 1 result back, the get failed. If it's zero, your site is > up. Wrap that in a cron job to send you e-mail or whatever. > > There are better long-term solutions, but this is a quick hack to see if > you can get a specific page and may tide you over until you get > something better in place. > > Internally, we use Big Brother so that we not only get e-mailed when the > event happens, but also maintain a somewhat decent history. Licensing > of Big Brother is weird - you pay a fee if you use the monitored system > to make money, and free otherwise. Thanks! That is pretty easy as an interim solution. I am testing out Nagios and had started doing a tcl expect script. It would be very easy to implement a script with wget indeed. Big Brother sounds like something to look at also. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
