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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Script for pinging continuously Post 302970269 by MadeInGermany on Monday 4th of April 2016 03:11:52 PM
Old 04-04-2016
Jim, I don't want to start a long discussion about personal likes/dislikes, but let me state I would write it like this
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
now=`$date +%s`
stop=$(( $now +  86400 ))
while now=`$date +%s`;  [ $now  -le $stop ]
do
   if ping -c 1 -w 5 AIXservername
   then
      OK='pass'
   else
      OK='fail'
   fi
   echo "$OK at `$date`" >>mylogfile
done

The cryptic [ $! -eq 0 ] && OK='pass' || OK='fail' does unnecessary evaluation of OK='pass', and would fail if such an expression would have a non-zero exit status. In comparison, if-then-else-fi is easy to understand and risk-free.
 

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wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date

WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p)

NAME

       wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date - Revert the state of a Wiki::Toolkit instance to an earlier point in time.

SYNOPSIS

	 # Removes any changes made to a Wiki::Toolkit instance since a given date
	 #  (and optionally time), restoring it to the state at that point.

	 wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date --type postgres
		  --name mywiki 
		  --user wiki  
		  --pass wiki 
		  --host 'db.example.com' 
		  --port 1234 
		  --date 2007-01-05 
		  --time 11:23:21

DESCRIPTION

       Takes three mandatory arguments:

       type
	   The database type.  Should be one of 'postgres', 'mysql' and 'sqlite'.

       name
	   The database name.

       date
	   The date to revert the state back to, in the format YYYY-MM-DD

       five optional arguments:

       time
	   The time (on the specified date) to revert the state back to, in the format hh:mm:ss. If not specified, will use midnight.

       user
	   The user that connects to the database. It must have permission to create and drop tables in the database.

       pass
	   The user's database password.

       host
	   The hostname of the machine the database server is running on (omit for local databases).

       port
	   The port number that the database server is expecting connections to.

AUTHOR

       Nick Burch

COPYRIGHT

	    Copyright (C) 2006 Nick Burch.  All Rights Reserved.

       This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Wiki::Toolkit

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