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genisis300

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From: Uk

Registered: 2008-01-15

Posts: 284

if exist

Hi All,

I'm setting up my Laptop to auto-mount an NFS Share point only if the computer can be found.

so is there a bash command that i can use to see if an ip address is active?

Thanks
Matthew

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gothmog.todi

Member

From: Austria

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 120

Re: if exist

one way would be to ping the server in question. but I don't know if there is a way to use it in scripts. And it is probably better to use netcat anyway. Maybe something like this:
nc -z <address> <port> && <command if port is open>

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: if exist

Hi,
This may help with setting up your fstab:  http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/03/17 … istro-nfs/.