Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to test the status of a remote machine in a script. Something like: > > IF remote machine is switched on / connected to the network... > > ... THEN launch backup. > > How would you go about that? I always recommend backuppc (either from http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ or the package in epel) because it does all this for you and gets it right. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com