bash script that pings is not working

[Steve Phillips]

Anne Moore wrote:
> HI All, can anyone help with this bash script? 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> while [ 1 ] 
> do
> ping some.ip.com
> sleep 60 
> done
> 
> # end of script
> 
> It's not really working like I need it to be. I'm trying to add this to
> everyone's logon profile and run it without the console ICMP replies showing
> up while each person is connected (to keep their connections alive). Then,
> once they log off, it closes the script.
> 
> Any scripting experts out there that can tweak this? Thank you so much for
> your time. -Anne

Also, if you are talking about firewall timeouts then this wont actually 
help as the timeouts tend to be flow based, not source/dest ip based.

If they use something like putty, then you can enable tcp keepalives 
which will probably do what you are after.

Anyway, to answer your query.

#!/bin/bash
#

while true; do
   ping -c1 some.ip.address > /dev/null 2>&1
   sleep 60
done


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