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From: alank@mjr.com (Alan H. Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,alt.sys.sun,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: ping script
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 12:26:43 -0400
Organization: MJ Research, Inc.
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Message-ID: <alank-0307961226430001@alank-mac.mjr.com>
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.93.960702171209.4062B-100000@gold.acns.fsu.edu>,
"Douglass E. Davis" <davis@gold.acns.fsu.edu> wrote:

> But if some one has a script or C program  that could do this I would
> appreciate the source, or if you could just tell me how to do it.

This sends a single ping to hostname and writes the output to outfile,
then sleeps for 120 seconds.

#!/bin/csh
while (1)
ping hostname 56 1 >>& outfile
sleep 120
end

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