If you want to monitor a system to make sure it is up, have you looked at monit?

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote:
> Try escaping the quotes or going to single quotes.
>
> Double-nested quotes are causing the problem.
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote:
>
> 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"
> 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> 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
>>
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