Service Status Checker Bash Script

[marius]

Introduction:
This script checks the status of a given service and informs if it is active or inactive, ensuring your critical services are running.

Code Snippet:

#!/bin/bash
# Service Status Checker
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 <service_name>"
  exit 1
fi

SERVICE=$1

systemctl is-active --quiet $SERVICE
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "$SERVICE is running."
else
  echo "$SERVICE is not running."
fi

Instructions:
Use the script by making it executable and checking a service status:

chmod +x service_status.sh
./service_status.sh apache2

Example Output:

apache2 is running.