Auto-Fixing Script

[boboli]

How hard/easy/feasible would it be to come up with a script that would survive an update and ping a server every xx minutes and, when it does not get a response, would run another script?


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[cojonesdetoro]

How hard/easy/feasible would it be to come up with a script that would survive an update and ping a server every xx minutes and, when it does not get a response, would run another script?
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I'm not sure what "survive an update" means.

script should be easy if you install cron and run it from there. Cron is a tool to do stuff on a specified schedule.

This works on my S1 tivo but YMMV if you have a different 'ping' binary:

ping -c1 -t5 192.168.44.2 && echo ping was good

If the ping is good then the stuff after the "&&" is run.
It times out after 5 seconds.
"||" as is the opposite of "&&"

[boboli]

I'm not sure what "survive an update" means.

script should be easy if you install cron and run it from there. Cron is a tool to do stuff on a specified schedule.

This works on my S1 tivo but YMMV if you have a different 'ping' binary:

ping -c1 -t5 192.168.44.2 && echo ping was good

If the ping is good then the stuff after the "&&" is run.
It times out after 5 seconds.
"||" as is the opposite of "&&"


So, using your format.....

ping -c1 -t5 192.168.44.2 || /hack/nic_install/nic_install turbonet

Now, the only thing I would need to figure out is how to make 'nic_install' work from console.....

Thanx :D


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