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From: dustin@keyhole.west.spy.net (Dustin Sallings)
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
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin,alt.sys.sun,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.admin
Date: 14 Jul 1996 13:46:53 -0500
Organization: SPY Internetworking
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Douglass E. Davis (davis@gold.acns.fsu.edu) 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.
That's silly, do it in scotty or something that you can actually
ping from. Don't use system.
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