Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:51:22 -0600 From: "Harley D. Eades III" <hde@foobar-qux.org> To: Anirban Adhikary <anirban.adhikary@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shell script doesnot executing Message-ID: <1134719482.34653.30.camel@devilBSD.freeBSD> In-Reply-To: <71c73b070512152153h507fae3eo22e3b2d52df1202f@mail.gmail.com> References: <71c73b070512152153h507fae3eo22e3b2d52df1202f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:23 +0530, Anirban Adhikary wrote: > Hi guys > This is Anirban here. I have the problem again with the previous shell > script.Which was > Write a shell script that will check whether a server is up or not(on ping) > & log the report to a file. > > I have tried to write the program in the following way > > #! /bin/sh > echo -n "Enter the IP or Hostname of the Server" > read host > #echo $host > ping -c2 $host &>file2 > if [ $? = 0 ];then The problem is you're checking the exit status of ping, even if the host is down ping is exiting with a successful status. You need to use sed or awk or something similiar to test for replys. -- Harley -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- G: GCS-- d- a? C++++ B- E+++ W+++ N++ w--- X+++ b++ G e* r x+ z+++++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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