Yeah, I was going to use wget, but then I figured I may as well do it 
"right" and use perl::LWP or somrthing. There are lots of options (:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Brian Wall wrote:

> \On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:01 PM,  <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, before I go write one myself, does anyone know of a simple website
>> uptime monitoring tool? Yeah, I can use Nagios but that's waaayyy overdone
>> and waaaaayyy overcomplicated.
>
> You could probably use curl.  Feed it a URL and then parse the results
> to determine result (200, 404, 500,, etc).
>
> Something to get you started:
> http://osric.com/chris/accidental-developer/2011/09/monitoring-web-server-status-with-a-shell-script/
>
> Brian
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