know if someone ping me

[Alex Martelli]

"Gerhard Häring" <gerhard.nospam at bigfoot.de> wrote in message
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> the syslog. With a Python script, you could continuously read from the log
file
> and do whatever pleases you if you find an ICMP request.

You can do much better than this!  With newer syslogd's, at
least on Linux, you can log to a named pipe, so your Python
program can just 'loop' reading from that named pipe and be
woken up for processing when there's something to process --
a MUCH better idea than 'polling' (continuosly read from
a file) in terms of system-load for infrequent events.


Alex