[ale] Need a bit of help with bash.

[jlightner at water.com (Lightner, Jeff)]

Am I missing something?   Wget has --timeout and other timeout options available.   Are you saying those don't work?

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Pete Hardie
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:37 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Need a bit of help with bash.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 13:20, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I have a script that does a wget, but if a server is not responing,
> the the script deads. What is the best way to say if host x doesn't
> return a value after 10 sec to stop. ?I seen several example of
> timeout function, but it looks I need to write a pid is that true?
>
>

I've seen this handled by running a ping to the IP first, since ping
has a timeout
value already.  It assumes that successful ping will mean successful wget, but
it might be a start



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Pete Hardie
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