> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:02 PM
> To: Perl-Unix-Users
> Subject: [Perl-unix-users] getting putput of ping command into file
>
>
> Hi gurus,
> I am trying to get the output of ping into a filehandle.
> My problem
> is that this program works on one Linux box and throws up an error on
> another.
> Pls tell me where am I goofing up.
>
What sort of error are you seeing? Does the ping not make it to/from the
host, or does the ping command not work? What is the result of a "which
ping" on each machine? Would "./ping -c 30 192.168.1.1" work any better?
>
> <code> ## I get an error in this part
> open(PING,"-|","ping -c 30 192.168.1.1") || die "Cannot ping to
> 192.168.1.1 : ", $!,"\n";
>
>
> while($line = <PING>)
> {
> print $line if($DEBUG == 1);
>
> chomp $line;
>
> ## lots of further processing...
>
> } ## end of while
>
> </code>
>
> I tried to run it on 2 Linux boxes with one working fine. foll is the
> "uname -a" output of this one:
> Linux m3 2.4.6 #7 Tue Jul 3 14:32:36 IST 2001 i686 unknown
>
>
> Then I took the "uname -a" output of the erroneous one :
> Linux shiva 2.4.13 #2 Fri Nov 2 07:09:41 IST 2001 i686 unknown
>
>
> Can anyone pint out the mistake to me.
>
> Regards,
> Parvez
>
Sorry for only questions and no answers...
Chris
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