Try escaping the quotes or going to single quotes. Double-nested quotes are causing the problem. On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > Thank you! > > getting the following error when the host times out: > > Cannot parse address `down”' (while expanding `down”'): Malformed email address > > > > On 10/24/2013 10:27 AM, Harry Penner wrote: >> You can roll your own fairly easily using a structure like this: >> >> -- >> #!/bin/bash >> >> PINGTARGET="myserver" >> PINGEMAIL="me at mydomain.com" >> PINGCOUNT=3 >> PINGWAIT=60 >> >> while [ True ]; do >> PINGTIME="`date +%D-%T`" >> if ! [ "`ping -c $PINGCOUNT $PINGTARGET | grep -c 'bytes from'`" -gt "0" ]; then >> echo "$PINGTIME $PINGTARGET failed $PINGCOUNT pings!" >> echo “$PINGTIME $PINGTARGET failed $PINGCOUNT pings!” | mail -s “$PINGTARGET is down” $PINGEMAIL >> else >> echo "$PINGTIME $PINGTARGET is up" >> fi >> sleep $PINGWAIT >> done >> -- >> >> If you need SMTP authentication, SSL, etc then you may want to go with something heavier like perl. Tons of examples on the web... >> >> -HP >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: >> I am googling for a ping program for Ubuntu that sends and email or audio alert if the ping request times out. Needs to run all the time rather than cycle every few minutes. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> -- >> Raymond Norton >> LCTN >> 952.955.7766 >> >> Sent from My Desktop >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- > Raymond Norton > LCTN > 952.955.7766 > > Sent from My Desktop > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131024/a7a59b1d/attachment.html>