On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 01:17:00PM -0700, john roberts wrote:
> If need to check on if one of our computers on our network is running. If
> figured I could set up a script on my linux box to ping the computer every
> minute and then if it doesn't respond then message me a warning (I have
> samba installed). Any ideas how to set this up?
You might look at fping, especially if you think you will ever be
looking at more than one host. Excerpt from man page:
fping is a like program which uses the Internet Control Message
Protocol (ICMP) echo request to determine if a target host is
responding. fping dif fers from ping in that you can specify
any number of targets on the command line, or specify a file
containing the lists of targets to ping. Instead of sending to
one target until it times out or replies, fping will send out a ping
packet and move on to the next target in a round-robin fashion.
In the default mode, if a target replies, it is noted and removed
from the list of targets to check; if a target does not respond
within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it is designated as
unreachable. fping also supports sending a specified number of
pings to a target, or looping indefinitely (as in ping ).
Unlike ping , fping is meant to be used in scripts, so its output is
designed to be easy to parse.
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Hal B
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