Hi people,
I want my gentoo machine to check every 5 minutes the connection status.
Therefor I wrote a shell script:
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#!/bin/bash
#set -x
dnsbroken=`ping -c1nqW5 -s8 mydomain.com 2>&1 | grep -e "unknown" -e
"denied" -e "permited"`
if [ -n "$dnsbroken" ]
then
# reconnect the connection
/etc/init.d/net.ppp0 restart
fi
exit 0
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to check if the connection exists, and if not restarts the init.ppp0
script.
This script I made it root:root and permission: 500
on crontab:
0-59/5 * * * * /usr/sbin/bash_ppp
The problem:
when the connection is down, even after 5 minutes or 10, the script
isn't being executed, when I execute it by hand it works!
Any ideas?!
Tamer
