beckr.org | Christian Becker » Geekstuff http://beckr.org Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:14:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Simple URL downtime alert with bash, curl and sendmail http://beckr.org/2008/08/17/simple-url-downtime-alert-with-bash-curl-and-sendmail/ http://beckr.org/2008/08/17/simple-url-downtime-alert-with-bash-curl-and-sendmail/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:02:00 +0000 cbecker http://beckr.org/2008/08/17/simple-url-downtime-alert-with-bash-curl-and-sendmail/ Now for a really easy way to be notified when an URL goes down:


email=$(/bin/cat <<!
From: URL Monitor <urlmonitor@localhost>
To: $2
Subject: $1 is down!
!)
/usr/bin/curl -f $1 || echo "$email" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t

Just put it in your crontab as urlmonitor.sh <URL to check> <email address>.

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