Monitoring and restarting Varnish - Script from http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-write-to-syslog.html
#!/bin/bash
# Script from http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-write-to-syslog.html
result=$(echo -e "ping\n\r" | nc localhost 6082|grep PONG|wc -l);
if [ "${result}" -lt "1" ];
then
/etc/init.d/varnish stop;
sleep 5;
/etc/init.d/varnish start;
logger Varnish restart
fi
sleep 5;
results=$(echo -e "ping\n\r" | nc localhost 6082|grep PONG|wc -l);
if [ "${results}" -lt "1" ];
then
/etc/init.d/varnish stop;
sleep 5;
/etc/init.d/varnish start;
logger Second Varnish restart
fi
exit 0;