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    Thank you!<br>
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    getting the following error when the host times out:<br>
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     Cannot parse address `down”' (while expanding `down”'): Malformed
    email address<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/24/2013 10:27 AM, Harry Penner
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cite="mid:CAE95qKx-tzJf4h9x=BR9Jk5Vb0L_F03W8Oz4MuTBG3Bn1iYfiA@mail.gmail.com"
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      <div dir="ltr">You can roll your own fairly easily using a
        structure like this:
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          <div>#!/bin/bash</div>
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          <div>PINGTARGET="myserver"</div>
          <div>PINGEMAIL="<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:me@mydomain.com">me@mydomain.com</a>"</div>
          <div>PINGCOUNT=3</div>
          <div>PINGWAIT=60</div>
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          <div>while [ True ]; do</div>
          <div>  PINGTIME="`date +%D-%T`"</div>
          <div>  if ! [ "`ping -c $PINGCOUNT $PINGTARGET | grep -c
            'bytes from'`" -gt "0" ]; then</div>
          <div>    echo "$PINGTIME $PINGTARGET failed $PINGCOUNT pings!"</div>
          <div>    echo “$PINGTIME $PINGTARGET failed $PINGCOUNT pings!”
            | mail -s “$PINGTARGET is down” $PINGEMAIL</div>
          <div>  else</div>
          <div>    echo "$PINGTIME $PINGTARGET is up"</div>
          <div>  fi</div>
          <div>  sleep $PINGWAIT</div>
          <div>done</div>
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        <div>If you need SMTP authentication, SSL, etc then you may want
          to go with something heavier like perl.  Tons of examples on
          the web...</div>
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        <div>-HP</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:22 AM,
          Raymond Norton <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:admin@lctn.org" target="_blank">admin@lctn.org</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am
            googling for a ping program for Ubuntu  that sends and email
            or audio alert if the ping request times out. Needs to run
            all the time rather than cycle every few minutes.<br>
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            Any ideas?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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                -- <br>
                Raymond Norton<br>
                LCTN<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
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