That is what I would try, but are all your servers on the same 192.168 subnet? If they have 2 NIC's, shouldn't you be using the other interfaces IP address instead of the one used for the thin clients? <div> On 10/18/07, Huck <<a href="mailto:dhuckaby@paasda.org">dhuckaby@paasda.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> double-replying.. $list = <a href="http://192.168.0.222">192.168.0.222</a>,<a href="http://192.168.0.223">192.168.0.223</a> for $x in $list do sleep 30 if ping -i 3 -c 3 $x then continue else echo "$x down!" | mail -s "222 down" <a href="mailto:veewee777@alltel.net">veewee777@alltel.net</a> break fi done something like that? Doug Simpson wrote: > I am trying to make a script that will ping servers and if they are down, send a message. If they are up it won't send a message. > > The problem I am having is if there are more than one, it won't work. > > Here is a sample of my script: > **********sample begins below************* > while (true) > do > sleep 30 > if ping -i 3 -c 3 <a href="http://192.168.0.222">192.168.0.222</a> > then > continue > else > echo "<a href="http://192.168.0.222">192.168.0.222</a> down!" | mail -s "222 down" <a href="mailto:veewee77@alltel.net">veewee77@alltel.net</a> > break > fi > done > **********sample ends above*************** > > > If I add a second (or more) to it, it fails to work properly. > **********broken sample begins below******** > while (true) > do > sleep 30 > if ping -i 3 -c 3 <a href="http://192.168.0.222">192.168.0.222</a> > then > continue > else > echo "<a href="http://192.168.0.222">192.168.0.222</a> down!" | mail -s "222 down" <a href="mailto:me@here.there">me@here.there</a> > break > fi > if ping -i 3 -c 3 <a href="http://192.168.0.223"> 192.168.0.223</a> > then > continue > else > echo "<a href="http://192.168.0.223">192.168.0.223</a> down!" |mail -s "223 down" <a href="mailto:me@here.there">me@here.there</a> > done > ***********broken sample ends above************** > > Obviously a bogus email address, but it is for reference. > Any ideas? > > Doug > > Doug Simpson > Technology Specialist > De Queen Public Schools > De Queen, AR > <a href="mailto:simpsond@leopards.k12.ar.us">simpsond@leopards.k12.ar.us</a> > > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> > For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org"> http://www.k12os.org</a>> > > _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>