-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It could be done using a crontab job and it's very efficient sometimes to use only a crontab job instead of nagios. You can use the precompiled nagios scripts for the task. Unless you have constrains on the OS allowed languages and packages, which then should be evaluated more deeply to meet your needs which might be missing. So: - - Nagios scripts as crontab job - - Other tcp level scripts as a crontab job - - fully fledged nagios - - other relevant solutions in your scope Eliezer On 11/04/2014 09:36 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > I would like to set up a cron job to automatically check whether my > mailserver and webserver are up, and tell me if they're not. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUWehzAAoJENxnfXtQ8ZQUaIEH/AtTmVDT7XN7uiFHSvPQRyEI Azb2L+RSMbvRq+n8yBx52D04F6A0YvRGYzA2/4i6ZK8ai3PV9DN1Y8IRim8PvNbf UvvQAVA4XvKT/nDSQJHP7GldcUS0WBPTm4BP/MAl1QYM5CPhc5FoP9+UhUgELxoj ZMzE58T+3XtzpQ5jeGELv9Oratz/zCIi+ysCdoJmoBgBd5Zg3Rfq53UGCxlKK6QB pfAYR0wfKn4O5Yo+EHTHlDHM+PIUzqdEKPtCWWigPhGAiLyrbMXHLL+PM3Tw2wZ8 82She07GAmyqyAkwBvi92z74fedMyjFEcgodEk0PbZpRN6JsWSmF0sxwcy4RZiA= =yLLM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----