Re: host availability


"Walter Roberson" <roberson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <8eednQAOHqeY3lnenZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> zee <Nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>I would like to get a perl, python script that would do the following:
>
>>Tell me when a host from a list of hosts went up or down, such as
>>google.com, my default gateway, comcast's mail server etc.
>
>>Log the change in state for any host in the list to the /var/log/messages.
>
>>Basically I want to see when my services are down.
>
>>Does anyone know of some scripts that do this?
>
> Why does it matter to you whether comcast's mail server was up or not,
> if you can't -reach- the mail server?
>
> The answer to your question as stated is "No, that cannot be done."
Oh, come on. I can't do a local log into /var/log/messages if I can't ping
the mail server at comcast?


> You may wish to rephrase the question.


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