Perform an action when a host comes back
I have in the past been lazy enough to not wait for a host to come back, yet need to do something when it comes back. Lets say starting up that service I never got around to creating startup scripts for, or uploading new firmware. Well, I found this little trick on NSLU2-linux.org
sudo arping -f && echo "True" |
Obviously the echo “True” can be replaced with whatever you wish. A sleep may be good if you want some extra time before performing the action. Pair this with a SSH identity / key pair and you can perform the actions on the host remotely.
