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Name: Dan Barnes
Date: February 17, 2003 at 18:11:23 Pacific
OS: Red Hat 7.3
CPU/Ram: Duron 1.2/256
Comment:

I have an isp I need to ping to keep my connection alive. If anybody has a shell script for this or any ideas that would be great.

Thanks
-Dan



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Name: 3Dave
Date: February 18, 2003 at 02:41:35 Pacific
Reply:

Just create a simple script and put it into
a cronjob, eg:

#!/bin/bash
ping -c 4 isp.hostname

Then dump it in your cron.hourly directory.


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Response Number 2
Name: Dan Barnes
Date: February 20, 2003 at 01:39:16 Pacific
Reply:

That did the job my friend. Thanks for the help!

-Dan


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