2009/10/25 Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net>: > IF remote machine is switched on / connected to the network... Use ping and test the result; perhaps something similar to this: case `ping -qnc 1 10.0.0.2 2>&1` in *'100% packet loss'*) exit 1 ;; esac See the script at the bottom of http://www.digitalpeer.com/id/configuringa for more info. Ben