hi there.
is this script for win32?
will this script do the required as described above?
what i realy think i need it to do is telnet my servers ip address on port 25 and if it recieves a response (i.e it doesn't time out) then all is ok, else display an error message
Have a look at this write up I had a week back. You could use just the check_host procedure if you want. It is platform independant. I'm using it on Win32 at the moment, and also had the same code execute on AIX 4.3.3 with NO problem. The script essentally does a TCP connect to the machine specified.