On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:14:51PM +1100, Amanda wrote:
> 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.
Just use the exit status of ping, e.g.:
ping -nqc 1 $remote_host > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
link_down=0
else
link_down=1
fi
and do whatever you need to do based on $link_down.
Cheers,
John
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