From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 24 17:28:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [192.216.136.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268F714F30 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:28:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@megadeth.org) Received: from shawn (shawn.megadeth.org [192.216.87.249]) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA23779; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:29:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <000d01bed634$83dbb4d0$f957d8c0@cpl.net> From: "Shawn Ramsey" To: "Michael P. Neuman" , Cc: References: <000101bed649$0c335540$04c809c0@kramer.cmsnet.net> Subject: Re: question... Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:27:44 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 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! Unless this is an academic exercise, install Big Brother. :) It's in the ports co http://MacLawran.ca/bb-dnld/llection, or you can get it from . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message