Ping

[Greg Fortune]

ummmm, self promotion?  How so?  and you wrote a program that issues a 
ping?  Isn't that just a standard system call or did I get a super spiffed 
out copy of Linux???

Krister, what exactly are you trying to accomplish with the ping?  What 
kind of results are you trying to store?

Greg Fortune


Andrew Dalke wrote:

> Remco Gerlich wrote:
> >'ping' is something that only root can do (it uses raw IP packets).
> >Fortunately, the normal ping command runs suid root so it will run as
> >root for anyone.
> >
> >Therefore, you will have to run the ping command and capture its
> >output.
> 
> Some self promotion.  I wrote a program called "sndping" which does
> something like this.  The source is at
> http://www.egroups.com/message/python-list/46299
> 
>                     Andrew
>                     dalke at acm.org
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