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I'm currently running Arch with i3 and polybar. I also maintain 6 servers, so to make my life easier I made a series of shell scripts to notify me if a server is down.

The scripts work, but it's far from an elegant solution. At the moment, I have 2 scripts for each server. One that writes to the status bar (polybar) and one that writes to a log.

This will write to the polybar:

 #!/bin/bash

 srv=`ping 000.000.000.000 -c 1 -W 1 
 | sed '2q;d' 
 | awk 'NF>1print $NF'`

 fail=`date '+%a %H:%M:%S'`



 if [[ $srv == ms ]]; then

 :

 else

 echo " 000.000.000.000 | $fail "

 fi

This will write to a log file:

 #!/bin/bash

 srv=`ping 000.000.000.000 -c 1 -W 1 
 | sed '2q;d' 
 | awk 'NF>1print $NF'`

 fail=`date '+%a %F %H:%M:%S'`

 log1=`ping 000.000.000.000 -c 1 -W 1`

 log2=`traceroute 000.000.000.000`

 if [[ $srv == ms ]]; then

 :

 else

 echo "<---------------------------------------------->
 000.000.000.000 | $fail

 ----------------------------------------------

 $log1

 ----------------------------------------------

 $log2
 <---------------------------------------------->



 " >> ~/.log/ping.log

 fi

Both scripts are added as modules in my polybar config.

I tried having both of these scripts merged as one, but that would make the loading time for the error to show up in polybar too long, so I separated them in to two separate shell scripts.

I added the traceroute to see where the request fails.

I know there has got to be a better way to solve this. A total of 12 shell scripts is just way too much and it's really unefficient. Does anyone have a better solution to this? One that require less shell scripts and will still log in an efficient way?