http://snipplr.com/users/noah/tags/network Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 01:13:03 GMT http://snipplr.com/view/41390/verify-a-service-is-up-and-running-with-netcat-and-hudson/ Use the `-z` option to netcat so you don\\\\\\\'t have to bother with piping input into the port once opened. All you want to know is if the service is up!\\r\\n\\r\\nThen, if you are running this checker inside of Hudson, you need to set the BUILD_ID env var to something abitrary like BUILD_ID=dontKill\\r\\n\\r\\nKludgy, but [it works](http://issues.hudson-ci.org/browse/HUDSON-2729?focusedCommentId=127805&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_127805)

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