I was interested in making a program in perl (if possible) that checks the status of my server(s) and emails if a function fails. I know I may be able to do this if my computer was on and connected 24/7, but is it possible for perl to do this after I run it once and close my browser?

I havn't had any experience with the wait(); function or probably many others I havn't heard about yet, but could it, or something else, be capable to do such a task on it's own.

I know about some of the other companies who can do this for me for a small fee, but why pay if we can do it ourself for fractions of the cost...

Thank you for your inputs, opinions, suggestions, and the slap of common sense to wake me up... JayBee

20040210 Edit by BazB: Changed title from 'Self-maintained script?'

In reply to Monitoring system availability? by JayBee

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