On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:10:06 +0200, Deboo wrote:
> How to make a script which would ping the server every few minutes to
> check if it's up or down and also log this status as well as time
> of pinging and any error messages.
Doing something similar, I'd recommend a cronjob ('every few minutes');
executing something like
$ echo `date`, `ping -c 2 www.mysite.com` >> ping.log
Of course, with some grep and cut (and 'if ... fi') you can refine it to
extract responses and log in case of error / success only.
HTH,
Uwe
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