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From: smccoll@rocket.cc.umr.edu (Steven McColl)
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: 17 Jul 1996 17:17:11 GMT
Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University
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One word: crond :)
Steve
Dustin Sallings (dustin@keyhole.west.spy.net) wrote:
: 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.
: --
: IPA.net Sysadmin My girlfriend asked me which one I like better.
: pub 1024/3CAE01D5 1994/11/03 Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
: | Key fingerprint = 87 02 57 08 02 D0 DA D6 C8 0F 3E 65 51 98 D8 BE
: L_______________________ I hope the answer won't upset her. ____________