Thank you! getting the following error when the host times out: Cannot parse address `down"' (while expanding `down"'): Malformed email address On 10/24/2013 10:27 AM, Harry Penner wrote: > You can roll your own fairly easily using a structure like this: > > -- > #!/bin/bash > > PINGTARGET="myserver" > PINGEMAIL="me at mydomain.com <mailto:me at mydomain.com>" > PINGCOUNT=3 > PINGWAIT=60 > > while [ True ]; do > PINGTIME="`date +%D-%T`" > if ! [ "`ping -c $PINGCOUNT $PINGTARGET | grep -c 'bytes from'`" -gt > "0" ]; then > echo "$PINGTIME $PINGTARGET failed $PINGCOUNT pings!" > echo "$PINGTIME $PINGTARGET failed $PINGCOUNT pings!" | mail -s > "$PINGTARGET is down" $PINGEMAIL > else > echo "$PINGTIME $PINGTARGET is up" > fi > sleep $PINGWAIT > done > -- > > If you need SMTP authentication, SSL, etc then you may want to go with > something heavier like perl. Tons of examples on the web... > > -HP > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org > <mailto:admin at lctn.org>> wrote: > > I am googling for a ping program for Ubuntu that sends and email > or audio alert if the ping request times out. Needs to run all the > time rather than cycle every few minutes. > > Any ideas? > > -- > Raymond Norton > LCTN > 952.955.7766 <tel:952.955.7766> > > Sent from My Desktop > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is > believed to be clean. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Raymond Norton LCTN 952.955.7766 Sent from My Desktop -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131024/a2c97855/attachment-0001.html>