How to "ping" a host ?

[Brad Clements]

This is most likely a limitation of the OS, not the script. Read the man
page on ping for your system, you can probably figure out how to grant icmp
socket access to a group of users.

If you're running on Windows, no problem!

--
Brad Clements, DevNet Sysop 5
Developer Network Sysop Team


"Gillou" <nospam at bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:a1el4j$d43$1 at norfair.nerim.net...
> Thanks Matthew, but reading the doc, your script must be executed by a
root
> user. This is an issue for the intented use I'm planning for my customer.
> I keep it (and the bookmark) anyway in my collection for future use.
>
> Cheers
>
> --Gillou
>
> "Matthew Dixon Cowles" <matt at mondoinfo.com> a écrit dans le message news:
> OKl_7.7579$aH2.4060332 at ruti.visi.com...
> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:15:53 +0100, Gillou <nospam at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Thanks for the reply but it's a 404 URL.  And I did not find pointers
> > >in that field from http://www.python.org/~jeremy (interesting stuff
> > >anyway)
> >
> > Dear Gillou,
> > There's also my ping.py. It's linked from
> >
> > http://www.visi.com/~mdc/pythonstuff.html
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matt
>
>




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