On 13Feb2013 03:21, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
| I used to use netcat to check if a particular host is up or if I have
| internet connection before I run a few scripts. [...]
| Any ideas what happened to it? What can I use as replacement?
If I want to know if I have an internet connection I look for a default
route in the output of "netstat -an", thus:
netstat -rn | egrep '\''^(default|0\.0\.0\.0) +[1-9]'\''
>/dev/null
No default route - no general purpose internet connection.
A default route but no connectivity? Then something else is wrong that
needs fixing anyway.
Cheers,
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