shell script doesnot executing

[Harley D. Eades III]

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 23:17 -0800, James Long wrote:
> > Message: 24
> > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:51:22 -0600
> > From: "Harley D. Eades III" <hde at foobar-qux.org>
> > Subject: Re: shell script doesnot executing
> > To: Anirban Adhikary <anirban.adhikary at gmail.com>
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Message-ID: <1134719482.34653.30.camel at devilBSD.freeBSD>
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> That is false.  ping exits with a true result code if at least one
> ICMP reply is received, false otherwise.
Yup, if you read the entire thread, I openly admit that.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2178259+0
+current/freebsd-questions

Cheers
-- Harley
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