[wellylug] server monitoring

[Mark Signal]

given that all sensible Linux users use debian would you happen to have 
a copy of the script?

as you say - it shouldnt be to hard to make one from scratch but it is 
still a little out of my league

cheers

Mark



David Antliff wrote:

>
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Mark Signal wrote:
>
>> does anyone know of a script (run as a cron job?)  that will ping a 
>> remote server a few times regularly and run a command if the server 
>> becomes unpingable  - and ideally runs another command when the 
>> server rejoins the land of the living.
>
>
> I wrote a script to do this once, and discovered several linux 
> distributions have different flavours of ping - I think the Debian one 
> allows a specified timeout but the Gentoo one does not, or something.
>
> Be fairly easy to whip a script up anyway.
>


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