On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:14, Amanda wrote: > Have a pptp connection from SME server to windows 2000 vpn server. > I'm looking for a bash script which will periodically (launched from cron) ping > a machine on the remote network and restart pptp if it doesn't respond. > > I wrote a similar thing for dos years ago which captured the output of ping into > a text file, then looked for the string "reply from".
The heart of your inner loop will inspect the return code of ping. It'll be 0 if the connection is up and non-zero if it's not. So you'll want something like this: if ! ping -c 1 -w 5 host.domain.tld; then service pptp restart; fi wrap that in a while 1 loop and you should be done. j. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
