Thanks. I will try that as my last resort. Thanks to all that sent their suggestions. httping looks like it might get me around it But thanks again to all for the quick reponses.
John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia "Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train!" >>> Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> 3/30/2010 12:50 PM >>> On 3/30/2010 11:31 AM, John BORIS wrote: > All of the suggestions will work but has anyone setup BackupPC to use something other than Ping to see if the host is alive? I have telnet available and someone else suggested httping but the ping command is used to send a few requests to just test the machine. > I don't see anything in the BackupPC docs how to setup an alternative. See the docs for $Conf{PingPath}. You could just set it to /bin/true unless it takes too long for a failed connection to time out when the host is really down. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/