----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jack Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: Shell script pinging for HR6.1
> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Jack Barnett wrote about, Re: Shell script pinging
for HR6.1:
> >
> > Oh so I cann't write #!/bin/sh scripts on the fly. Doh, close enough to
know
> > what it means any way. I guess I should run it though, next time, real
> > quick so I don't look like a dumbass, a?
> >
> > while [ 1 ]
> > do
> > ping -c1 isp.domain.com > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
> > done
> >
> > happy?
> >
> > Most of the errors you get from this, is if, you are not connected up.
> > Since we probably know that we are not connected up, we don't need the
error
> > messages.
> >
> > Anyways, like I said it was a quick script. Only had 15 minutes to get
> > though /all/ of my email this morning.
>
> Jack.
>
> Firstly i was not flaming you in the way you seem to think.
>
> Secondly, its not a real good idea just to answer a mail in haste, take it
> from me, i've been there and done that, when one writes something in haste
> then mistakes will undoubably be in abundance, that leads to more
> misunderstandings and more mails making it even more misleading.
It was a simple question, I though I could of give a simple answer, I
screwed up, I shouldn't of tried to help.
>
> As to shell scripting most commands can be used in many ways, but, when
> multiple commands are in one routine problems will arise, possably not
when
> the person who wrote it executes the script but i mean in gerneral.
>
> Now i dont want to start another general disscustion on what is best and
> what is not, in this case in such a simple script both [ 1 ] and : work.
>
> Take an example from Ray, his answers are well thought out and rearly
> incorrect, i hope i can say the same about myself. I make mistakes as
well,
> be it mostly spelling mistakes, English might be my native langague but i
> have been here in Holland for 25 + years and belive me it gets very hairy
> sometimes when trying to spell the correct words in the correct langauge,
> let alone trying to write scripts which will work on _all_ distributions.
sorry, sometimes I make mistakes.
I wasn't trying to write to be all, script, I was trying to make a point,
use a while loop with a sleep
loop forever
ping
sleep
return
It was half sloppy code, half pesudo code, it wasn't meant to be a
productive script, it was meant to give him a general idea of what could be
done... it was for the user to take out, add error control, robustness and
feartures, I didn't say it was a script that you could put on your
productive server right this second...it was so he could get general feel of
what needed to be done, and fine tune to his system / distro
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> > Jack
>
> --
> Regards Richard
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> Happy New Year
>
>
