How to "ping" a host ?

Joshua Muskovitz joshm at taconic.net
Tue Jan 8 15:08:19 EST 2002


Hi,

You must force your python script to run as root (chmod u+x maybe?) in order
to be able to use icmp.  We did it at my last job by freezing the python
code into an executable, then modifying the permission bits on it.

-- j




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