load script at bootup

[Shantanoo Mahajan]

On 24-Aug-07, at 12:18 AM, Narek Gharibyan wrote:

> #!/bin/sh
>
> Ping -Dc 3600 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | tail -4 >>/root/stat && date >> / 
> root/stat
> && echo "===========================" >> /root/stat
>
>
>
> I wrote this script for collecting ping statistic (after I email to  
> a group
> the stat file).
>
> 1. how can I run this at startup
>
> 2. how can I restart this script after 3600 counts down
>

For 1 and 2, 'man cron', 'man crontab'

> 3. Is there a program, script or any way more appropriate to track the
> packet loss and ping availability.?

You may write your own script which parses the output of ping using  
grep/awk/...

regards,
shantanoo