shell script doesnot executing

[Harley D. Eades III]

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
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