[nmglug] Script to check Apache

[Deepan Chakravarthy]

Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> I don't normally respond to my own posts, but here is a perl one liner 
> I googled up.
>
> perl -MLWP -e 'print LWP::UserAgent->new->request(HTTP::Request->new(G
> +ET=>"http://example.com"))->is_success()?"up\n":"down\n"'


That was nice, is it possible to capture the return status .. i mean 
400, 404, 200, 300,301 ..
>
> Andrew Farnsworth
>
> Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
>> Perl has a complete http request module.  Just use it and then check 
>> the return code and act based on that.  If not, you should use 
>> something like wget or curl but you will need to RTFM to be sure you 
>> are checking the correct results.
>>
>> Andrew Farnsworth
>>
>>
>>
>> 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 Sudoku Solver: http://www.sudoku-solver.net/

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