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Authored by: robh on Sep 04, '01 11:00:43AM

What's your definition of "permanent ping" ?

Why not call ping every 5 minutes or less frequently ?
Either do something like

ping -i 300 some.host

or

ping -c 1 some.host > /dev/null
^^ called from a cron job, scheduled to run every 5 minutes.



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