On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 20:14, Michael Jezierski - Systec Conveyors wrote: > what's a good ping tester I can setup on a FC2 box, perferably without > any X-windows. Just need to ping a couple sites and if there's a problem > email the person responsible for that site. > Use ping -c <number>. Ping will return 1 if no answers were received, otherwise it will return 0. So something like if ! ping -c 10 -q host.to.check > /dev/null then mail -s "network problem" ..... fi may do the job.
