Re: Quick way to tell if online for use in cron script?
"Damian" == Damian Menscher <menscher@uiuc.edu> writes:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Willy Lee wrote:
>> I wanted to run 'ntpdate' periodically via a cron script. However,
> Given that you're trying to see if you can access xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> how about using ping? That will protect you in the case you're
> dialed up but the ntp server is unreachable for some reason, too.
Hm, I guess that will work for the cron script. For some reason I
never thought of that. As long as I use the '-c' option...
Hm, how do programs like 'gkrellm' monitor network status and packet
traffic? I always assumed there was some easy way to do it.
=wl
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Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer
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