Hi, you can use telnet or netcat to send input to that port and receive the answer.
echo "PING" | nc localhost 5001
Best regards
Markus
On 11/24/19 2:43 PM, Marc Roos via dovecot wrote:
>
> How do I check the standard script then on this port 5001 from the
> command line?
>
>
> This one of alpine linux also does not have it yet
> bash-5.0# dovecot --version
> 2.3.7.2 (3c910f64b)
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: RE: Health check curl example
>
> Yes. The passthrough option is rather new.
>
> Aki
>
> On 24/11/2019 15:28 Marc Roos via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org>
> wrote:
>
>
> I think I already have that, I am having this configured
>
> service health-check {
> # this is the default configuration using the simple PING->PONG
> # example health-check.
> executable = script -p /bin/health-check.sh
> inet_listener health-check {
> port = 5001
> }
> }
>
> bash-5.0# /bin/health-check.sh
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Connection: keep-alive
>
> OK
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Re: Health check curl example
>
> Your health check script should implement HTTP protocol. Then you
> can
> use passthrough mode and use cURL.
>
> The provided script does not speak HTTP.
>
> Aki
>
> On 24/11/2019 15:12 Marc Roos via dovecot < dovecot@dovecot.org>
> wrote:
>
>
> I am not understanding how this health check[1] script should work.
>
> From
> the commandline it works fine when I type a PING I get a PONG. But
> how
> do I do a curl to this 5001 port?
>
> Tried something like this:
>
> bash-5.0# curl http://localhost:5001/
> curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
>
> bash-5.0# curl http://localhost:5001/PING
> curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
>
> [1]
> https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/health_check/
>
>
> ---
> Aki Tuomi
>
>
> ---
> Aki Tuomi
>
>
pEpkey.asc
Description: application/pgp-keys
