Re: how to check the server can be connected or not

[lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>]

On Friday 03,February,2012 11:05 PM, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On 03/02/12 09:55, lina wrote:
> > On Friday 03,February,2012 05:32 PM, Jon Dowland wrote:
> > > while true; do
> > > ssh server && break
> > > done
> > Thanks for both of you,
> >
> > the two ways once ssh server,
> > it stayed in server and won't come back and proceed the rest.


lina@Debian:~/Desktop$ $ while true; do ssh starfruit && break ; done
-bash-3.2$


> I don't fully understand your follow-up, but to explain my solution: it
> will loop as long as the ssh process returns an error code. So if the
> ssh session connects successfully, upon ending the session, it will
> return a success code and the loop will stop.