On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 03:35:53PM -0500, Alan Mead wrote:
: In perl, you could issue the ping command in backticks (make *sure* you
: give it a count) and evaluate whether it gives any output. You'd have to
: play with it to get it to work since some output is produced even if there
: are no responses...
Why spawn /bin/ping when you could use Net::Ping instead?
: You should be aware, though, that it is entirely possible that important
: services have died (lpd, for example) while the host is still up.
Agreed. IO::Socket will help with that...
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