#!/usr/bin/perl # die commands probably need to be replaced with something else. use strict; use warnings; use IO::Socket; my $EOL = "\015\012"; my $listen_sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( LocalAddr => '127.0.0.1', ### LocalPort => '8888', Proto => 'tcp', Listen => 1, Reuse => 1, ) or die("Could not create socket: $!\n"); my $client_sock = $listen_sock->accept() or die("Error accecpting connnection: $!\n"); { local $/ = $EOL; my $incoming; while (defined($incoming = <$client_sock>)) { chomp($incoming); die("Received nothing.\n") unless length $incoming; my $command; ($command, $incoming) = split /\s+/, $incoming, 2; if ($command eq "check") { my $process_name = $incoming; die("check: Bad process name.\n") unless $process_name =~ /^\w+$/; # my $num_processes = grep { /$process/ } `ps -ef`; my $num_processes = int(rand()*24); ### print $client_sock ($num_processes >= 12 ? "up" : "down"), $EOL; next; } die("Bad command $command.\n"); } } close($client_sock); close($listen_sock);