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On Oct 5, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Martin Schweizer wrote:

> I'm looking for port which checks if a website is online or not. My  
> goal is
> regulary starts a script which do this for me. Any ideas?

Put a fetch command in your crontab. Experiment so that it emails you  
only when it fails.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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