Hello Everyone. Whil e reading the Python Cookbook as a means of learning Python, I came across the script by Nicola Larosa. Not knowing anything about PERL, I was wondering if there were a translation in PERL so I could have my Netware servers send heartbeats to the heartbeat server? Thanks!
Dave Title: PyHeartbeat - detecting inactive computers Submitter: Nicola Larosa # Filename: HeartbeatClient.py """Heartbeat client, sends out an UDP packet periodically""" import socket, time SERVER_IP = '127.0.0.1'; SERVER_PORT = 43278; BEAT_PERIOD = 5 print ('Sending heartbeat to IP %s , port %d\n' 'press Ctrl-C to stop\n') % (SERVER_IP, SERVER_PORT) while True: hbSocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) hbSocket.sendto('PyHB', (SERVER_IP, SERVER_PORT)) if __debug__: print 'Time: %s' % time.ctime() time.sleep(BEAT_PERIOD) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list