<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Try escaping the quotes or going to single quotes.<div><br></div><div>Double-nested quotes are causing the problem.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Raymond Norton <<a href="mailto:admin@lctn.org">admin@lctn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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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
wrote:<br>
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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>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.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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