A bashscript to restart tomcat8 using a cronjob

tomcat8_restart_service.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

URL='https://<url or domain>/geoserver/<workspace>/ows?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeName=geonode:ken_adm&maxFeatures=50&outp$

# only output error messages
curl -s -S -f $URL > /dev/null

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  date
  echo Restarting Tomcat8 service
  sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat8 restart
  echo KiWASH GeoServer Instance is restarting! | mutt -s "KiWASH GeoServer Instance" [email protected]
  echo
fi