Checking for perticular procs

[Matt Pounsett]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Dan Spray wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> Is there a script that will check if certain processes are running?  I need
> to make sure that there is at least one instance of ssh, 5 instances of
> httpd, sendmail.etc.  I have been using Big Brother for such things but
> would really like to get everything under one program.  Any help would be
> appreciated.

Yes, one of the standard Nagios plugins is check_procs, which will allow you
to check for certain numbers of processes running, or certain numbers of a
specific process running.


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