I need to check the availability of a web page for every one hour through a script. Following is the requirement. 1. Go to http://someone.com 2. If any error encountered in opening the home page, it should trigger an email with the appropriate error message. Need help on this ....

You might try using the lynx browser command. lynx is used by character devices so it works well in a script: #!/bin/bash # website to check web="http://www.computing.nnet" # The exit code of the lynx command equals zero if it can open the webpage else it is non-zero if it can not: lynx -dump "$web" &> /dev/null if [[ $? -eq 0 ]] then echo "$web web page exists" else echo "$web web page does NOT exist. Execute the email command" fi lynx is typically bundled with Linux, but isn't always installed on other distributions. If you don't have it, this is the homepage: http://lynx.isc.org/ lynx has a ton of other options that you might find useful.

Thanks for your response the script should work in UNIX box. but the code provided above has the linux command. Can you please provide me a script that works with UNIX command. Thanks in advance

If you are not willing to download the lynx package, then I can not do anything for you.