keeping an occasional ping alive

[sinck@ugive.com]

\_ It seems like on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:30:16PM -0700, Craig White scribbled:
\_ Orig Msg> [added by sinck] so we would probably want to ping 
\_ Orig Msg> [added by sinck] an internet addressonce every 30 seconds.  [...]
\_ Orig Msg> I read man ping and found that I can ping address -i30 -q but I want that
\_ Orig Msg> process in the background so I get a shell prompt so I add an ampersand to
\_ Orig Msg> the line to make it...
\_ Orig Msg> 
\_ Orig Msg> ping (address) -i30 -q & [...]
\_ 
\_ make a crontab entry:
\_ 30 * * * *  /usr/local/bin/chkisdn.sh

Note that this crontab entry and 'ping ... -i30' are *not* the same
'30'.  crontab means 30 minutes, ping means 30 seconds.

In the FWIW department, I've before added a happy little sound wrapper
to the ping output...made it easy to tell when the flaky DSL of the
company of the time would come back to life.  :-)

David