From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 05:35:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C7C16A41F for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:35:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF7E443D45 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:35:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 5000 invoked by uid 502); 7 Jan 2006 05:35:57 -0000 Received: from dsl28215.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.115.215) by 0 with SMTP; 7 Jan 2006 05:35:57 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.115.215 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl28215.ywave.com Message-ID: <43BF533C.6050206@ywave.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:35:56 -0800 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051224) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: brianjohn@fusemail.com References: <52231.71.37.238.58.1136553753.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com> In-Reply-To: <52231.71.37.238.58.1136553753.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: script to monitor internet connection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 05:35:59 -0000 Brian John wrote: > Hello, > I would like to write a script to monitor my internet connection status. > My home connection goes down fairly often and I would like to get an idea > for just how often it goes down and if possible how long it goes down for. > Could someone help me write a script that will check my connection to the > internet and log whenever it goes down and possibly how long it goes down > for? I want to have some evidence to give to my ISP that my connection is > going down. > > Thanks > > /Brian If there really is nothing in the ports collection or google, you might start with pinging from a cron job. Something like: #!/bin/sh ping -c 1 my.isps.main.server.example.com 2> /dev/null > /dev/null echo `date`: Ping returned $? >> /var/log/ispevidence.log HTH, Micah