On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 01:51 -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > 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. Actually, I just tested this and I am wrong. Ping does exit with a error status when there are no replys sorry.
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