On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 03:37:36PM +0530, Deboo wrote: > How to make a script which would ping the server every few minutes to > check if it's up or down and also log this status as well as time > of pinging and any error messages. > > Regards, > Deboo > > > -- Try this; $while [ true ]; do ping -c 2 www.debian.org; sleep 5m;done -- ian