From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 24 15:55:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (mailout1-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 709A114D35 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 15:55:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neubyneu@twcny.rr.com) Received: from kramer ([24.95.175.142]) by mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with SMTP id com; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:53:43 -0400 Message-ID: <000101bed649$0c335540$04c809c0@kramer.cmsnet.net> From: "Michael P. Neuman" To: Cc: Subject: question... Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 22:54:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm in the process of creating a network status site for my network. I'm trying to create a script in Perl to check if certain computer on my net are up or down. For example, I want it to test if www.yahoo.com is up, if it is, then return 1 or something different then if it was down. What is the best way to do this?? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- Michael P. Neuman - Consultant, NeuTech Computer Consulting http://www.cmsnet.net neubyneu@twcny.rr.com -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message