Hi fiddler42,

Coincidentally, I had to use alarm just the other day, and I was also using uptime to test it.

Have you looked at the alarm docs?  It gives a good example where, in conjunction with eval, you can branch on failure or success (ie. alarm did or didn't take place).

Something like this, perhaps (using the code example from alarm with your code): 

use strict;
use warnings;

my @MasterMachineIndex = qw(
    # For example ...
    remote_host_1
    remote_host_2
    remote_host_3
);

foreach $Host (@MasterMachineIndex) {
    &ping;  # my subroutine to ping system...works fine

    $Cmd = "rsh $Host uptime";
    my $result = "";
    eval {
        local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" }; # NB: \n required
        alarm $timeout;
        $result = `$Cmd`;
        alarm 0;
    };
    if ($@) {
        ($@ eq "alarm\n") or die "Unexpected error\n";
        # Handle timeout here.
    }
    else {
        # Success here.
    }

    # ...
}

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In reply to Re: Trying to get alarm to work... by liverpole
in thread Trying to get alarm to work... by fiddler42

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