would this still work, even thought i have no control over the actual IP address
assignment?
The server is in one locatation, I use a company for my DNS.
thanks for idea though.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Neil Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, July 7, 2003 10:49 am
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) (OT) Perl Programming
> On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 10:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Anyone know of a way to have a perl script, or system script
> occasionally
> > check/ping a url to see if it is working?
> >
> > (the rest of the script will have a email sent if the url
> doesn't work).
> >
>
> Here's an ipcop script that checks the connection and resets it if
> it'sdown. You could easily alter this to achieve your desired end:
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
>
> #Check the connection on an ipcop firewall and reset if it's down
> ping -c1 `netstat -rn | grep ^0.0.0.0 | awk '{print $2}'`
>
> if [ "$?" != "0" ] ; then
> /etc/rc.d/netaddress.down
> /etc/rc.d/netaddress.up
> fi
>
> --
> Neil Jolly
>
> (with Yoda-like voice)
> "Confrontation leads to anger... Anger leads to fear... Fear leads
> to using Windows NT in mission-critical combat systems... And
> this is
> how the ancients fell...
>
>
