Simple != fancy Does wget return decent exit codes? If it does you could try something shell-ish like
while true ; do wget http://your.url.com || echo "SITE DOWN" | Mail -s "GAH" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; sleep 300 ; done which will check every five minutes and when it fails send you an email. or something On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:55:42PM -0700, Whitney, Dennis wrote: > Well, if you really want to get creative, it's possible to set up an email > address that will do a ping, trace route or netstat and then send back the > results to the sender. > Or if you want to get even more fancy, you can hook this up to your > pager.... > > > > Dennis Whitney || Application Developer || 415-733-8479 || > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lorin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Bits] site monitoring > > > does anyone know of a simple site monitoring tool? I'm looking for > something i can run on a remote box that will just email me if one of the > sites i'm watching is unavailable. > > or do you just use chron and lynx? > > -Lkb > > -- > If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and > shot now. > -- Zaphod Beeblebrox > > _______________________________________________ > Bits mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits -- ___________________________________________________________________ P a u l [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
