RE: [cobalt-users] Resetting apache on raq4 daily any way to test it?

[Troy Fridley <TFridley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure I totally understand the circumstances which you need to
restart the web server.  But if it is the result of one or more process's
abending, why not just stick a script in cron.hourly to check and see if the
service is running or not?

<CODE>

#!/bin/bash
ISRUNNING='ps -A | grep -c <servicename>'

if [ "$ISRUNNING" = "0" ]; then
	/path/to/binary/or/script
else
	exit
fi

</CODE>

This would check every hour to see if a specific service is running or not.
This is quick and dirty, just to give you an idea to pursue.

-Troy



-----Original Message-----
From: Zak Thompson [mailto:zt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:11 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Resetting apache on raq4 daily any way to
testit?

Michael,

Apache usally isn't thing that takes the server down,... usally its
ChiliSoft that takes it down.  ChiliSoft is a BIG RESOURCE EATER and is
known to shutdown.

--
Zak T.

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marco Baurdoux
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 6:06 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Resetting apache on raq4 daily any way to
testit?


Hi Michael,

you might want to use snmp and ping the port 80 of your webserver, if it
respond you have a running webserver if it doesn't make it send an alarm to
a beeper of something similar.


le 19.8.2001 19:39, Michael à no.spam.please@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :

> Hello folks!
>
> I have to reset my apache server on my raq4 daily because if it runs too
long
> without a reset, for some strange reason older versions of MSIE will not
> display SSL pages. When I reset the httpd server, strangly enough, they
can
> see them.  I have been resetting it daily by hand and want to add a script
in
> cron.daily BUT sometimes (rare) the reset does not take and the server
stays
> down!  When I do it by hand I can test this with the browser, and simply
> restart it again.  With a restart script though, that is not possible
since I
> am not sitting there to see if its up or not.
>
> I made a script in /etc/cron.daily called restarthttpd
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
>
> #EOF
>
>
> Chmod 755 seems to work. OK, now, is there anything I can add to this
script
> that will test to see if it REALLY restarted? And if not, try again?
>
> Thanks guys!
>
> Michael Thiessen
>