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From: Jeffery Yoder <yoderjl@pcisys.net>
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: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 15:19:27 -0600
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Dustin Sallings wrote:
>
> Douglass E. Davis (davis@gold.acns.fsu.edu) wrote:
>
> : I am trying to make a script that will ping a computer every few minutes
> : and run a program if there is no answer.
>
> : I was thinking about making a C program to do the same thing. it would
> : just do a :
> : system("ping blazay > datafile ")
> : then it would read datafile to see if the ping worked.
I'd use a shell script, i.e.
#!/bin/sh
while :
do
if ping MACHINE 3 | grep alive
then
echo "It's up"
else
run program
fi
sleep 120
done
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