Good day,
I run a small program that performs an ICMP ping every 5 seconds or so from server A over a remote subnet to Server B. The result of each ping is appended to a log file on Server A.
My problem is that the log file would gather data for about 2 to 3 days and then terminate itself. Is there a way I can change it so that it continues to run until I terminate it manually? Below is some code i use:
use strict;
use Time::Local;
use Net::Ping;
my ($time);
my @hostnames = ("10.0.0.1");
my $p = Net::Ping->new("icmp");
my $hostname;
print "\nWriting data to ping.log\n";
print "Press CTRL-C to exit\n";
while(1)
{
foreach my $hostname (@hostnames)
{
$time = localtime;
open (LogFile, ">>ping.log") || die "Sorry, cannot open logfil
+e\n";
print (LogFile "$time - ");
print (LogFile "$hostname is ");
print (LogFile "NOT ") unless $p->ping($hostname, 2);
print (LogFile "reachable.\n");
close Logfile;
sleep(5);
}
}