currently, i am doing a
# ping host.domain -i 5 -q &
just like vince mentioned. i was already using this before. however, i
would just like to know is there is a crontab way of executing things by
the second or maybe fractionals of a minutes.
thanks for the advice anyway.
> I found the question of whether or there is a way to make cron run every N
> number of seconds quite interesting. As far as I know, there is no way to do
> this, so you will have to make a crontab entry that runs a brute-force program
> like this:
>
> ping <host> ; sleep 10 ; ping <host> ; sleep 10 ; ping <host> ; sleep 10 ; ping
> <host> ; sleep 10 ; ping <host> ; sleep 10 ; ping <host> ; sleep 10 ;
>
> Then, just execute it every minute using crontab.
>
> Alternatively, you can do something like this:
>
> ping -i 10 <host>
>
> doing so would send the ping command at every 10-second interval.
>
> Finally, you might not need to do this-isn't it that keepalive is built-in for
> all kernels? I'm not so sure about this though, so maybe someone here knows
> better and could expound on this further. You would need to recompile to do
> this, of course :)
>
>
> dennison
>
>
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> >notice some ISP's have this evil habit of disconnecting their users who
> >have been idle for just a few seconds like say 10 seconds for my ISP. i
> >would like to write a crontab entry that executes a single ping every
> >5 seconds. this way there is always activity.
> >
> >i was only able to find our how to do it for intervals of one minute.
> >
> >thanks.
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