[aclug-L] shell script

[Jesse Kaufman <kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

is there some sort of shell script that can do the following for me?

1.) run ping <arbitrary webpage> (i usually just do yahoo)
2.) if it connects no problems, just exit, doing nothing...
3.) if it is down send an e-mail to a predefined list of people (my
netadmins)
    with the subject line "quadnet's down AGAIN..."

the LAN i am on is up and down all the time, and unfortunately all
network administers for it are not accessing inet via this LAN, so they
only know it's down when they manually check (this server is, of course,
windoze).

along with that question brings another question:  is there a way to
configure sendmail to not use <username>@<localhost name>, and instead
something like kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, or the like?

jesse

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