admin newbie seeking script assistance

From: Brian Bouchard (bbouch_at_mcio.org)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: 2 Aug 2004 09:05:46 -0700

I just recently joined a group of system administrators, after working
for about 5 years in programming on OS/390.

I have been asked to write a perl script to monitor httpd daemons over
time, initially worried about the Size field in a ps -efl

I started working on this by isolating what I wanted to look for with
the following command:

ps -efl | grep "httpd -k start"

which seems to be getting what I wanted, but while I was getting this
started, it occurred to me, there must be a billion other similar
scripts out there as to what I am about to start writing.

Does anyone have anything like this? I realize it would actually be a
good learning for me to start this from scratch, but the script is
needed ASAP for aid in troubleshooting some production problems, and I
would rather not have to do this from scratch if someone else has
something that would work for our purposes and is relatively simple so
I could modify as needed.

Credit would be given to whomever helped me out. I'm not looking to
impress anyone by getting it done faster than anticipated... I just
want to have something soon so the guys working on the problem aren't
being held up by me trying to learn the ins and outs of a new
language/system.

Any and all help is appreciated

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