That's a good idea. However I want it to run constantly, like a service. So in some respects it would have to be a loop. Maybe embedded loops. I don't really know :)
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is there a time module to help with this... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. I would like to write a simple monitoring tool that basically > performs an action on a list of servers (ping, port check, etc) at a > specified time interval. So let's say I want to ping each server every 5 > minutes. I don't want to code a loop where I ping all the servers and then > sleep for 5 minutes, and then start over again. Reason this wouldn't work is > because as the list of servers grows and while some pings may time out, the > actual time to go through the loop once would never be the same. > > So i'm hoping there is some sort of time module that will perform a list of > tasks at a timed interval. While one server may be timing out, it's still > making sure that the others are being checked within the 5 minute time > frame. > > If there is no module to help me with this, can anyone offer any other help, > perhaps if you have done something like this in the past? You could setup cron to run the script once every 5 minutes. Some like the following in your crontab should work: */5 * * * * root /my/script/to/ping/hosts.pl -- Andrew Gaffney Network Administrator Skyline Aeronautics, LLC. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
