Re: [aclug-L] shell script

[Cheez-Czar <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not unless you write one, It shouldn't be too hard


On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Jesse Kaufman wrote:

> 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
> 
> --
> +============================+============================+
> ! Tabor College              !          ICQ UIN1: 4022791 !
> ! 400 S. Jefferson           !         ICQ UIN2: 13115282 !
> ! Hillsboro, KS 67063        ! kaufmjes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx !
> +============================+============================+
> 
> 
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