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);
    }    
}

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In reply to Ping log terminates unexpectedly by Scrat

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