On Tue, 14 May 2002, destr0 wrote:
> I have a server with several virtually hosted sites on it, located and
> a out-of-state hosting facility.  What I'd like to do is have
> something run on my local machine, that hits these websites to see if
> they are up every day, and send me an email if they are not.  Is there
> a utility or script already available to do the job?

check out netsaint; http://www.netsaint.org; soon to become nagios;
http://www.nagios.org.

Similar products:

Big Brother
OpenNMS (Does far far more)

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