siteup takes an arbitrary site presumed to be down and checks on it every five minutes until it can gladly report the site is back up. As is, it notifies Growl upon success.
I'm sure the effect of this script is better accomplished with other software, but I wrote this to practice my scripting.
- the site to check can be given in
stdin... or else it asks for it - change the interval variable if you don't like 5 minutes
- sorry if the colors look stupid or the shell escaping of them doesn't work