Hiya,

My friend Dave and I have been working on the following script, which has been designed to ping a server and feedback whether or not it is online.

Only trouble is that I can't get it working on my server. I dont know if this is because I have set the path to perl wrong or what, nor do I know how I am supposed to find out what the path is, because my ftp doesn't support the WHEREIS command. :(

If any of you can see a problem in my code below, please let me know at llydapdicter@yahoo.co.uk

Thanx in advance. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
#file by davidjp@cableinet.co.uk, llydapdicter@yahoo.co.uk

use CGI qw(:standard);

print header(), start_html("Server Ping Testing"), h1("Ping Results");

@host_array = ("irc.webchat.org","64.177.244.76");

use Net::Ping;
    $p = Net::Ping->new();
    print "$host is alive.\n" if $p->ping($host);
    $p->close();
    $p = Net::Ping->new("icmp");
    foreach $host (@host_array)
    {
        print "$host is ";
        print "NOT " unless $p->ping($host, 2);
        print "reachable.\n";
    print "<br>";
        sleep(1);
    }
    $p->close();
    $p = Net::Ping->new("tcp", 2);
    while ($stop_time > time())
    {
        print "$host not reachable ", scalar(localtime()), "\n"
            unless $p->ping($host);
        sleep(300);
    }
print end_html();

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2001-03-19 Edit by Corion : Changed title

In reply to Ping via CGI (was: Can't get my script working. Please help! :)) by Llyd

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