| Stephen Gran on 10 Jun 2004 16:03:02 -0000 |
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:18:52AM -0400, Mattison, Jacob said: > My website (running on a redhat 9 server) utilizes a service that runs > on another machine on our network (which is running AIX). I'd like to > be able to periodically check, from the web server machine, whether > the other service is running. What are my options? I know I can use > nmap to scan for open ports and grep to see if the appropriate port is > among them. Since I know the port in advance, is there a more > efficient way to check just that port? Is there another way to check > whether the service is running? mon is a usual solution for this problem. You have to speak m4 to set it up, which is something of a drag, but it works well. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | A celebrity is a person who is known | | steve@lobefin.net | for his well-knownness. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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