module to ping a remote computer

[Andrew Dalke]

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.com