On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:56:48 +0000 Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- > I'm off list, please CC: > --- > > Hi, > I'm re-wiring a network and am trying to recreate a system which I read > in "the story of ping"[1]. Basically you use a speech synthesiser to > call out PING as loud as possible for every successful ping of another > machine on the network. This means you can go round the building playing > with the cabling looks for errors, and know as soon as you find one :) > > What I'm basing the system on is: > > ping attic | sed -e 's/.*/ping/' | festival --tts > > The problem is that it won't work 'on-the-fly' i.e. as the ping command > is running, not once the ping command has finished. I managed to get sed > working on-the-fly by using ssed (super-sed). But I can't get festival > working on-the-fly, calling out PING as they happen :( > > Has anyone got something like this working?
There are ping modules for perl and python. Maybe you'll have to write a little script to make things play nice. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! "As I like to joke, I may have invented it, but Microsoft | | made it popular" David Bradley, regarding Ctrl-Alt-Del | +------------------------------------------------------------+
