bash script to check ever minute if a given site is online

netyet.sh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

#
# netyet.sh - check a site every minute until it's back online
# jake@jakekara.com
#
# usage: netyet.sh google.com
# 

# Read the site as the only command line arg 
SITE=$1

# Sleep for 60 seconds between retries (eventually make this an arg)
SECONDS=60

while [ 1 ]
do
    # test the site. ping sets exit status to 0 if successful
    ping -c1 $SITE > /dev/null 2>&1

    if [ $? = 0 ]; then
	# success
	echo "$(date): $SITE online."
	say "$SITE is online"
	break
    else
	# failure
	echo "$(date): Failed to load $SITE"
	sleep $SECONDS
    fi


done