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

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

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Karl Vogel <vogelke+debian@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:49:22 +0800, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> said:
>
> L> Hi, a server is closed, but will start in future, sooner or later, I
> L> wish to access in the first time it's open.  I tried:
>
> L> while ( ssh server ) do sleep 60 done
> L> wall < server_open.txt
>
>   Instead of polling the server, could you have it send a mail message to
>   a special address when starting SSH?  If you're running the while-loop
>   on your workstation, set up an extension address like
>        lina-wall@your.workstation.com
>   which forwards incoming mail from the SSH server to /usr/bin/wall.
>
>   If you use Postfix, see the http://www.postfix.org/local.8.html sections
>   on ADDRESS EXTENSION and EXTERNAL COMMAND DELIVERY.

Sorry, I can't tell which one I used. I can use "mail" there

start reading Postfix

Thanks

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