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Simple bash script to detect network outage and troll network admins
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internet-monitor.sh
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
ping -c 1 www.example.com &> /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo `date`: ping failed!
say "Hey network admin - internet is down" -v bruce
fi
sleep 10
done
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