Hello everybody!

I have a script which I use to poll some data via the kernel /dev/tcp setup...

At times this can have an issue and data stops coming in....

Is there some way am I just not finding to do sort of a "heartbeat" type
thing...

I do something like:

exec 6/dev/tcp/ip/port

Then I do a

while read <&6

Then it breaks down that data to stuff I need...a do case case scenario...
pretty much there data is 24/7/365 with stops for legit reasons... but its the
none legit data cessation ie: the remote connection got snafu'd what ever.. I
need to test for, and restart...or what not.

what I am not coming up with is a way to check if read didn't get any data in
say x seconds.. do something else.. like an alert or something...

This is done in BASH... right now since this is complete other than this little
data check I don't want to rewrite it in somthing else... I played with doing
some work with it in Python 2.7.x but for right now I would like to stick to
BASH....

What numbingly simple thing am I missing here....

Thanks!


Rick


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