Hi all, thanks a lot for the overwhelming feedback to my question. I got about 30 answers in 5 minutes. I am still browsing through all the replies. Most of you suggested to do something like #!/bin/bash ping snap >/dev/null if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo snap is down! Do something about it... else echo snap is already on! fi which worked great for me. Thanks again! Regards, Andreas ========================================================= Original question: this is a question for shell script gurus. I need a script called by cron that performs a specific action (call another script) if host snap is down. I thought about checking this with bash-2.03# ping snap no answer from snap If snap is down the answer "no answer from snap" is returned. But how can I use this in a shell or expect script to call my action script? If the answer "snap is alive" is returned I want to do nothing. I guess this can easily be done but I am unfortunately not such a script expert yet. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri May 17 11:45:34 2002
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