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Check if internet is on and restart VPN if is down
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| ## First you need to create a job in crontab, you must execute this with 'sudo' first to guarantee the root user routine | |
| ## $ sudo crontab -e | |
| ## Append a line at the end of the file, here i use a every 1 hour schedulle execution with the path to script. | |
| ## 0 */1 * * * /home/USERNAME/internetIsOn.sh | |
| ## Optional: if you want to create a simple log to count how many hours you lost your connection follow these steps | |
| ## 1 - Create a log directory | |
| ## $ sudo mkdir -p /var/log/internetIsOn | |
| ## 2 - Change ownership of directory to make this available to your user anytime | |
| ## $ sudo chown -R USER:USERGROUP /var/log/internetIsOn | |
| ## 3 - Change permission to only your user can write and user group can read | |
| ## $ sudo chmod -R 750 /var/log/internetIsOn | |
| ## 4 - Uncomment log lines in the script below | |
| ## Now the script; | |
| #!/bin/bash | |
| wget -q --tries=10 --timeout=20 --spider http://google.com | |
| if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then | |
| ## date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M - online\n" >> /var/log/internetIsOn/daemon.log | |
| else | |
| ## date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M - OFFLINE\n" >> /var/log/internetIsOn/daemon.log | |
| sudo systemctl restart VPN@SERVICE.service | |
| fi | |
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