I need someone to help me write a cron job!!
 

OK what i basicly need done, is something to monitor the httpd service on an hourly basis.

Basically I need it to do a “/sbin/service httpd status” and if the response is “httpd is stopped...” then run a “/sbin/service httpd start”

I am a dumbshit when it comes to writing my own scripts ( I can edit other people stuff rather easily though ;)) so I need some help with making the job file that I can drop into cron.hourly on the server.

There is a glitch with php, and the management software on the server that causes the HTTPD service to get all confused durring a graceful restart. ( cause it attempts multiple restarts at once and .. well that doesn't work)

Any help would be appreciated!!!

put this in cron:
*/10 * * * * root perl /pathToTheScript/httpdwatch.pl


And here's the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

#================================================= =================httpdwatch.pl
# Objective: Periodically check in on httpd and start if necessary
# Inputs: None
# Outputs: None
# History:
# Programmer: Date: Modification:
# -------------- ---------- -------------------------------------------------
# Rob Burgess 10/02/2002 Original version
#================================================= ==============================

open(serviceStatus, "/sbin/service httpd status|");
$httpdStatus=<serviceStatus>;
chomp $httpdStatus;
close(serviceStatus);
if( $httpdStatus =~ /stopped/ ){
system("/sbin/service httpd start&");
}
elsif( $httpdStatus =~ /running/ ){#OK so far...
}
else{
print("Something is very wrong...(httpdwatch.pl)\n");
}#==============================EOF=============== ===============================

#edit: made some readability improvements
#edit: and a syntax error fix :|

awesome I will try it out tonight!!! thanks!!

Oh, BTW, the above will run the script every 10m, but being what your occupation is, I'm sure you knew that. :D

Have fun!