[plug] Monitoring using "ping"

[Jun Tanamal]

I want to monitor my connection to the ISP say, every 5 minutes. How do 
I make a script to ping a specific IP and make it send an email warning 
message when the connection is down?
Thanks for the ideas..

-Jun

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