"internet connection tester script"

Paolo Galtieri pgaltieri at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 17:22:27 UTC 2010


On 03/29/2010 10:12 AM, Chris Tyler wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 12:58 -0400, Jim wrote:
>    
>> On 03/29/2010 04:17 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
>>      
>>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Hiisi<very-cool at rambler.ru>   wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> OK, I see. You was trying to advertise your nice working script to
>>>> list members. That was your crafty plan, wasn't it? ;- )
>>>> Where should one propose it for inclusion in F13? ;- )
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Interesting, when I saw his mail to the CentOS list, I tried it and it
>>> didn't work so I sent him a couple of suggestions that made it work
>>> for me. I don't have a Fedora 12 around to see if the default shell
>>> behaviour is different but with the Ubuntu's Bash it didn't work and
>>> required adding ` around the ping&   grep  statements to allow them to
>>> be evaluated.
>>>
>>>        
>> FC12-X86-64
>>
>> I put the script in a text file and Properties says it a "shell script"
>> and it has read, execute
>> priviledges but if I left click on it, It won't execute,
>>
>> But if I open a Terminal window and do ~/internet-script or bash
>> internet-script it will execute.
>>
>> If I do a right click and "open with" a terminal, only the terminal
>> window opens but internet-script won't execute.
>>
>> How do I get this Internet-script to execute by left clicking, or even
>> double clicking ?
>>      
> What's the full permission mode and desktop environment?
>
> With mode 764 here, double-clicking brings up a display/run dialog on
> Gnome under F12.
>
> -Chris
>
>    
If you are running Gnome you will need to go into the file browser 
preferences under Behavior and set the "Run executable text files when 
they are opened" option.  By default the Gnome file browser will ask 
what to do.

Paolo


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