On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:02:54AM -0000, Brian McGarvie wrote:
>
> I can exec ping OK... but I need a way to ping and basically give me a OK or
> Not OK... any ideas?
This isn't really a PHP question, since ping is a command in the OS and
not in PHP itself. And of course, you didn't mention what OS you run.
I run FreeBSD. In FreeBSD, ping has options that could be used thusly:
$target="209.238.46.67";
exec("/sbin/ping -c 1 -t 3 $target", $junk, $ret);
if ($ret==0) // In shell, 0 means success
print "Wahoo! I can see $ipaddr!\n";
else
print "Bummer... $ipaddr seems to be down.\n";
The option -c specifies a "count" (the number of pings to send), and -t
specifies a timeout in seconds. If your operating system is UNIX or
Linux, you can "man ping" from a shell to see what you need to do to
duplicate this functionality, or check out various OS man pages at
http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html#man . If you're running a Microsoft
operating system, you're most likely out of luck.
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