I don't seem to have a copy of fping installed anywhere handy at the moment, but I suspect that fping -s output goes to STDERR rather than STDOUT.
You can test this (in the Bourne shell type world): fping -s > t.tx 2>&1 or in the C shell version: fping -s >& t.tx If your output shows up in t.tx, then have a look at the perl 'open' function documentation for various ways of handling this in perl. Jon On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Hubert Ian M. Tabug wrote: > Hi, > I am currently using fping together with mon, my dilemma is I am > trying to store the report generated by fping -s to a file but no matter > what kind of piping or output redirection I perform I just can't seem to > store the output of fping -s to a file, although all other options used > with fping i.e. fping -a can be redirected, fping -s seems not to work > with output redirection. I would greatly appreciate your assistance > since I've been working on redirecting fping -s's output to a file for 1 > week now, and I think I've exhausted all means to do it, well ever means > I know off. Im just a beginner at PERL, so maybe there is a PERL method > of extracting fping -s output. > > Thanks > Hubert
