On 3/30/2010 11:31 AM, John BORIS wrote:
> All of the suggestions will work but has anyone setup BackupPC to use
> something other than Ping to see if the host is alive? I have telnet
> available and someone else suggested httping but the ping command is used to
> send a few requests to just test the machine.
> I don't see anything in the BackupPC docs how to setup an alternative.
See the docs for $Conf{PingPath}. You could just set it to /bin/true
unless it takes too long for a failed connection to time out when the
host is really down.
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