NAME
    Watchdog::Service - Perl extension to monitor services

SYNOPSIS
      use Watchdog::Service;
      $s = new Watchdog::Service($name,$pstring);
      print $s->id, $s->is_alive ? ' is alive' : ' is dead', "\n";

DESCRIPTION
    Watchdog::Service is an extension for monitoring services
    running on a Unix host. The class provides a trivial method for
    determining whether a service is alive. More sophisticated
    methods can be implemented by creating subclasses of
    Watchdog::Service e.g. Watchdog::HTTPService uses the status of
    an HTTP 'GET' method to decide if a web server is alive.

AUTHOR
    Paul Sharpe <paul@miraclefish.com>

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 1998 Paul Sharpe. England. All rights reserved.
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.


Prerequisites
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Alias
Proc::ProcessTable

Installation
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perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

To Do
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History
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3-Sep-1998                  Paul Sharpe                   <paul@miraclefish.com>
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Release 0.01
- Initial release.

4-Sep-1998                  Paul Sharpe                   <paul@miraclefish.com>
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Release 0.02
- Corrected bug in Watchdog::Service SYNOPSIS.

24-Sep-1998                 Paul Sharpe                   <paul@miraclefish.com>
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Release 0.03
- Bug fixes.