The Alert Never Fired Because the Loop Skipped the Last Line of the File

We kept a plaintext file of hostnames, one per line, and a monitoring script read the file and pinged each host every five minutes. When a host failed to respond, the script sent an email alert. The system had been running for months and it worked — we had caught three actual outages with it, which

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