wget and testing a website

I have seen somone use (I think ) wget to poke a web site to test if it
is up and then emails the results to an email address.

i have never used wget and cant seem to see how to do this.

I want to test a particular web site to keep an eye on if it stays up.
Im not an advanced user so want something relatively simple. I can do
the mail part but not sure how to use wget simply to tell me if it
available or off line.

thanks.

On 15 Jun 2006 17:13:53 -0700, steve wrote:
> I have seen somone use (I think ) wget to poke a web site to test if it
> is up and then emails the results to an email address.
>
> i have never used wget and cant seem to see how to do this.
>
> I want to test a particular web site to keep an eye on if it stays up.
> Im not an advanced user so want something relatively simple. I can do
> the mail part but not sure how to use wget simply to tell me if it
> available or off line.

simple

/bin/rm -f .listing
wget --no-remove-listing your/site/here

if [-! -e .listing ] ; then
mail -s "site is not up" (E-Mail Removed)e < /dev/null
fi


for extra points:
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html

> simple
>
> /bin/rm -f .listing
> wget --no-remove-listing your/site/here
>
> if [-! -e .listing ] ; then
> mail -s "site is not up" (E-Mail Removed)e < /dev/null
> fi
>
>
> for extra points:
> http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html

Wonderfull thanks.

steve wrote:
> I have seen somone use (I think ) wget to poke a web site to test if it
> is up and then emails the results to an email address.
>
> i have never used wget and cant seem to see how to do this.
>
> I want to test a particular web site to keep an eye on if it stays up.
> Im not an advanced user so want something relatively simple. I can do
> the mail part but not sure how to use wget simply to tell me if it
> available or off line.
>

you can try something like this too (one line)

echo the site is `wget -O /dev/null THE.URL.com >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo
ok || echo "not ok"` | mail -s "webstatus" (E-Mail Removed)

best,
peter

>
> you can try something like this too (one line)
>
> echo the site is `wget -O /dev/null THE.URL.com >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo
> ok || echo "not ok"` | mail -s "webstatus" (E-Mail Removed)
>


ähhh ... please note that the spectrum "webpage ist up" and "webpage is
down" ist not sufficient for all pages. there are things like timeout
and pages that forbid wget, pages that forbid frequent access to the
same page and so on ..

best
p

Thanks