Simple bash script to check whether MySQL is running.

monitor.sh

#!/bin/bash

##checks if mysql and apache is up and running, also can be used to start the service on Debian type systems
## Contact: nissim at companyoftwo dot in

APUP=$(pgrep apache2 | wc -l);
MYUP=$(service mysql status | wc -l);

if [ "$MYUP" -lt 2 ];
then
        echo "MySQL is down.";
        /usr/sbin/service mysql start

else
        echo "MySQL is running...";
fi

if [ "$APUP" -eq 0 ];
then
        echo "Apache2 is down.";
        /usr/sbin/service apache2 start

else
        echo "Apache2 is running...";
fi