Hi Neal, Using "/sbin/ping" instead of just "ping" works perfectly :-)
Many thanks, Sarah On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Neal Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might try using the full directory path for the ping program. I > suspect that you are not getting the full shell path applied to the > cron since it doesn't seem to find it. > > Neal > > > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Sarah Reichelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We have a small network behind a NAT router, with IP addresses either > > > set manually or by DHCP in the format 192.168.1.xxx. > > > All the computer's are Macs so they also have Bonjour names e.g. > > > sarah-mac.local. > > > > > > I have set up a custom web server based on Andre's RevOnRockets. When > > > the web server receives a request, the IP address of the requesting > > > computer is contained in the socket ID. I would like to be able to > > > translate that to the Bonjour name of the requesting computer as that > > > would make the logs much more easily read. > > > > > > Is there a Mac shell command or any way of getting this data for > > > addresses inside a local network which are not listed on any DNS or > > > Directory service? > > > > > > I'm testing a method that works backwards. I use mDNS to give me a > > list that contains the computer names. Then if I convert these names > > to Bonjour names, I can ping then, which always gets the IP address > > from the name. Then I can store that data in a lookup table to use for > > converting IP addresses back to names. > > > > I made this into a standalone and it works fine. So then I set up a > > crontab entry to have the app run once a day. It runs fine and mDNS > > gets the list of networked computers, but ping just returns "/bin/sh: > > line 1: ping command not found". However on the same computer when I > > run the app manually, it works perfectly. > > > > There must be something happening when the app runs as a cron job that > > is messing with it's mind. Hopefully someone with a better grasp of > > cron than me, can come up with a solution. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution