#!/bin/sh # Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Bastian Kleineidam # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along # with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. # # Script suitable for cron job URL checking # Usage: # check_urls.sh [--cron] [linkchecker options] [urls...] # # And with crontab -e you add for example the following entry: # # # check my site each night # 10 4 * * * $HOME/bin/check_urls.sh --cron http://mysite.com/ # # To only get a mail when errors are encountered, you have to disable # the intro and outro output in a config file $HOME/.linkchecker/cron: # # [text] # parts=realurl,result,extern,base,name,parenturl,info,warning,url # if which linkchecker > /dev/null; then LC=linkchecker else echo "linkchecker binary not found" exit 1 fi LCOPTS="-f$HOME/.linkchecker/cron" if [ "$1" = "--cron" ]; then shift LCOPTS="$LCOPTS --no-status" D=/dev/null else D=/dev/stdout fi echo "Begin checking..." > $D $LC $LCOPTS "$@"