Set audible alarm when an IP address comes online
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I'd rather this one on Gnome, as I'm used to be listening some music while working. I've even created a bash function which receives ADDRESS as parameter.
7until ping -c1 ADDRESS;do true;done;zenity --warning --text "ADDRESS is back"
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Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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ping -i 60 -A IPInstead of a bell you can have OSX tell you (this one will check every 30 seconds for 5 minutes)ping -i 30 -c 10 IP && say -v vicki 'Server is back online'sleep 300; say -v vicki 'Server is back online'albeit with ping working in the mean time. I think you may have missed the concept.xset b; ping -a IP; xset -bturn off "visual bell" before ping, and turn it on after ping.sleep 300; ping -c1 IP && say "server is up"this is a better solution:while true; do [ "$(ping -c1W1w1 server-or-ip.com | awk '/received/ {print $4}')" = 1 ] && say -v vicky "Server is back online" || echo; sleep 1; doneIt would be annoying as hell, but you'd know it was up. More info: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1815/beep-when-a-server-goes-offline