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
> echo "Server is up and working" $host
> else
> echo"Server is not up and not working" $host
> fi
I reworked your script a bit, it is working for me maybe it will for
you:
#! /bin/sh
echo -n "Enter the IP or Hostname of the Server: "
read host


ping -c2 $host > file2;
if `test $? = 0`; then
echo "Server is up and working" $host
else
echo "Server is not up and not working" $host
fi

TEST:
hde{/usr/home/hde} $ ./test.sh
Enter the IP or Hostname of the Server: 193.169.1.1
Server is up and working 193.169.1.1
hde{/usr/home/hde} $ ./test.sh
Enter the IP or Hostname of the Server: 193.169.1.111
Server is not up and not working 193.169.1.111
hde{/usr/home/hde} $ cat file2
PING 193.169.1.111 (193.169.1.111): 56 data bytes

--- 193.169.1.111 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
hde{/usr/home/hde} $


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