From: Michele Andreoli ([email protected])
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 12:32:24 CEST
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:19:42AM +0200, Bill nicely wrote:
>
> I'm trying to write a basic script that will ping a host for a specific time
> frame
> and with user set intervals and pipe the output to a file... something like
>
> myping [host] [duration minutes] [interval seconds] [output - path and file
> name]
>
I used "nc" for that, not "ping", because it do not interrupt is link
is down. If your goal is to discover if a host is up you can use that:
rustic_ping()
{
timeout=1; port=1
nc -zv -w $timeout $1 $port 2>&1
return $?
}
The "-w" command is the timeout (1 sec in this example).
Michele
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