Hi Steve Thanks for the better script. Actually, ping does work when it involves a firewall, surprisingly. It's working great now and all timeouts have ceased. I had already made the setting in putty, but I'm doing the ping script for all the other applications. Thanks for the script help! Anne -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Phillips Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:20 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: bash script that pings is not working 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 -- Steve () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
