shell script doesnot executing

[Harley D. Eades III]

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 01:51 -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote:
> 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.
Actually, I just tested this and I am wrong.  Ping does exit with a
error status when there are no replys sorry.


-- Harley
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