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

[Jon Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>]

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.

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.