Andreas Metzler wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:02:08PM -0400, Daniel M. Drucker wrote:
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>>>Using
>>>#/bin/sh
>>>echo quit | nc -w 1 -i 1 smarthost.myothersite.org smtp
>>>
>>>instead of ping might work better.
>>>
>>>
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>>Ooh! I like that even better than the other one, because this way, if my
>>smarthost goes down for a moment (deferring a message), it can still be used
>>for that message on retry if it has come back up in the interim.
>>
>>
>
>Please triplecheck how netcat behaves on different errors (host does
>not respond, does not close connection, any packages sent to host are
>fitered, etc.) before really using this, or wrap it in
>Package: timeout
>Description: Run a command with a time limit.
> timeout executes a command and imposes an elapsed time limit. When the
> time limit is reached, timeout sends a predefined signal to the target
> process.
>
> cu andreas
>
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Use nmap. It has host_timeout option
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