checking port status with perl

[Andy Ford]

Hi all

I am writing a Perl script to check the status of a number of processes
on a solaris machine i.e. to check mysqld I can use 

        my $result = $dbh->ping;

Is there a perl module that will allow me to do something similar with
apache or sshd to see if they are running and accepting connections?


Thanks

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Andy Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Telindus