RE: bash script that pings is not working

Hi Steve

Thanks for the better script.

Actually, ping does work when it involves a firewall, surprisingly. It's
working great now and all timeouts have ceased.

I had already made the setting in putty, but I'm doing the ping script for
all the other applications.

Thanks for the script help!

Anne

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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:20 AM
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Subject: Re: bash script that pings is not working

Anne Moore wrote:
HI All, can anyone help with this bash script?
#!/bin/bash

while [ 1 ]
do
ping some.ip.com
sleep 60
done

# end of script

It's not really working like I need it to be. I'm trying to add this
to everyone's logon profile and run it without the console ICMP
replies showing up while each person is connected (to keep their
connections alive). Then, once they log off, it closes the script.

Any scripting experts out there that can tweak this? Thank you so much
for your time. -Anne

Also, if you are talking about firewall timeouts then this wont actually
help as the timeouts tend to be flow based, not source/dest ip based.

If they use something like putty, then you can enable tcp keepalives which
will probably do what you are after.

Anyway, to answer your query.

#!/bin/bash
#

while true; do
ping -c1 some.ip.address > /dev/null 2>&1
sleep 60
done


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