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somewhere at on_earth

Oct 18, 2004, 11:34 PM

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module to ping a remote computer

Has anyone here created a module for pinging a remote computer via the ping
command and displaying a green/red led light button on the local computer
depending upon the response back? This would be a very simple automatic
monitor.

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garabik at kassiopeia

Oct 20, 2004, 12:09 AM

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anonymous <somewhere [at] on_earth> wrote:
> Has anyone here created a module for pinging a remote computer via the ping
> command and displaying a green/red led light button on the local computer
> depending upon the response back? This would be a very simple automatic
> monitor.
>

Jeremy Hylton, jeremy @ cnri.reston.va.us did develop a ping class.
I have a copy of it because I wanted to use it in some other project,
but never got enough time to finish it. I can send you a copy if you
want.

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adalke at mindspring

Oct 20, 2004, 12:43 AM

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anonymous wrote:
> Has anyone here created a module for pinging a remote computer via the ping
> command and displaying a green/red led light button on the local computer
> depending upon the response back? This would be a very simple automatic
> monitor.

Years ago (1998) I wrote a Python wrapper to the command-line
ping program and had it play a sound. Search the newsgroup
archives for "sndping". Here's a Google link

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3636B963.2587200C%40bioreason.com&output=gplain

Uggh! I mixed spaces and tabs back then. :(

One problem about ping in the local process is that I believe
it requires root privs. You should likely wrap the
command-line program instead, as I did.

This is exactly the sort of task 'expect' was created for.
You might look at that (it's a Tcl package) or one of the
Python equivalents.

Andrew
dalke [at] dalkescientific
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