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From: Ian Fink <fink@arlut.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,alt.sys.sun,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: ping script
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 12:36:04 -0500
Organization: Applied Research Laboratories - The University of Texas at Austin
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To: "Douglass E. Davis" <davis@gold.acns.fsu.edu>
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Douglass E. Davis wrote:
>
> I am trying to make a script that will ping a computer every few minutes
> and run a program if there is no answer.
>
> I was thinking about making a C program to do the same thing. it would
> just do a :
> system("ping blazay > datafile ")
> then it would read datafile to see if the ping worked.
>
> But if some one has a script or C program that could do this I would
> appreciate the source, or if you could just tell me how to do it.
Expect would be the easiest choice :)
Then have cron run the expect script.
You can obtian expect (and I think a script called ping-and-page) from
ftp.cme.nist.gov
Ian Fink
fink@arlut.utexas.edu