Re: ping script

[Jan Minar <Jan.Minar@seznam.cz>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:23:57PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> Has anyone written a script that they're willing to share that pings a 
> host and when the ping fails it send out an email message?

#!/bin/sh
while :; do
  # Allow for intermittent network failures
  ping -c 120 "$1" && LAST="`date -R`" || \
  	mail -s "Can't ping $1 since $LAST" < /dev/null
done

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