From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 01:52:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD19516A407 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 01:52:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: from trueband.net (trueband.net [216.163.120.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 261EE43D45 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 01:52:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: (qmail 32502 invoked by uid 1006); 2 Oct 2006 01:52:21 -0000 Received: from jhall@vandaliamo.net by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(-0.8/100.0):. Processed in 0.884636 secs); 02 Oct 2006 01:52:21 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.14) by -v with SMTP; 2 Oct 2006 01:52:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 7222 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2006 01:52:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO admintool.trueband.net) (127.0.0.1) by -v with SMTP; 2 Oct 2006 01:52:19 -0000 Received: from 12.170.206.13 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhall@vandaliamo.net) by admintool.trueband.net with HTTP; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 01:52:19 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <1559.12.170.206.13.1159753939.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> In-Reply-To: <20061002013734.GC77128@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1532.12.170.206.13.1159751554.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> <20061002013734.GC77128@dan.emsphone.com> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 01:52:19 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: "Dan Nelson" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Checking remote processes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:52:22 -0000 > In the last episode (Oct 02), jhall@vandaliamo.net said: >> Is there a way to test a remote server to determine if certain >> processes are running? >> >> For example, can server 1 check server 2, which is at a remote >> location, to ensure squid is running? >> >> I have not been able to figure out how to do this, or if it is even >> possible. > > Easiest way would be to try connecting to squid's listening port. This > only works with daemons that listen on internet sockets, but quite a > few do. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > I hadn't thought of that. I'll give it a try. Thanks, Jay