Maybe this is the wrong way to go about doing it, but I want to write a script that will either: 1. ping our FTP website
2. login to the FTP site

if either fails, send an email. Basically a low-level system check to repeat three times a day, every day.

I've made a Terminal shell script to login, I've also tried with Automator. I'm afraid this is a little more advanced than I can produce. I can't join the two parts: the check and the email portion. How can I bridge the gap between the Terminal script and the email, but only on a connection failure?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/10/2008 09:32AM by blusubaru.

Cronnix will run scripts on a schedule...
I'm sure there's a non-GUI way to do it, but Cronnix puts a face on it us mere mortals can mostly understand,..

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CRON is the terminal way to do it.

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What about AppleScript? I've never messed with it before. I'm playing with duplicates of some scripts on my system already. I've got a script setup to send an email and a script to open the FTP connection, but I still can't bridge the gap. Also, on the email script, there's an awful lot of human input needed (whom should I sent to, subject title, etc....)

I'm drawing a complete blank on the syntax, but it's very simple to have an applescript play a terminal script...
I've even done it...

I think I need more caffeine this morning, it's still not coming to me..

But here's the URL for Cronnix;
[www.abstracture.de]

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Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision.
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Ah HA..
Just dug out an example AppleScript that calls a shell script..


do shell script "cancel -a -"

So the releveant part is "do shell script", then the name of the shell script.
Unless your script is in the default shell scripts folder (and I don't recall where that is), you'll need to provide a path also.

(by the way, "cancel -a -" cancels all print jobs to all printers... I made it part of a log-in script).

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Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision.
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Write a simple shell script that:

1) runs the other scripts (e.g. name it server_test.scr)
2) then executes this command:

echo "sh shellfile" | at -f /pat/to/file/server_test.scr now + 8 hours

Save the file and change the permissions to allow execution.

Then execute the script.