Gabriel L. Briones III wrote:
yes, me thinks can do it in crontab. By the way I need some brief explanation on what are those characters for inside the bracket...poor me :( and what syntax is for the mail command? (I'm confused in #man mail)you can make a script that will check the connections and place it at your cron job
here's a sample script for you to use as a referrence
#!/bin/sh
ping -c 2 <ip-address-here>
if [ ! "$?" = 0 ]; then
<mail command here>
exit 1
fi
sorry for this...but I want to learn :)
I appreciate the help..
-Jun
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