Re: admin newbie seeking script assistance

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:21:58 -0000

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In comp.unix.admin Brian Bouchard <bbouch@mcio.org> suggested:
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> 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

Perl might be OTT for that.

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

> ps -efl | grep "httpd -k start"

 ps -C httpd > /dev/null && echo "apache up" || echo "no apache"

Should AFAIK work with a UNIX95 compliant ps in bash/ksh. Adjust
to your needs. 

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