Andrey - Thank you very much for the example. Is something missing after the def start(self): or should def run(): not be there? I think I understand the idea your showing though and working on adapting it. Again thanks!
Jorgen - yes that is very true in regards to the *nix comment. I will change that comment to "for my *nix environment" to be more precise in the future. It was posted as an example of what I'm doing rather than a global ping solution for all. I deploy an alternative set of common tools (ping being one of them) amongst our various platforms so the options in this case isn't an issue for me. A built in ping method would be better was being looked into but wanted to get this part finished first. Thanks -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Ping monitor - monitor ip in the background? From: Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, November 02, 2008 1:04 am To: python-list@python.org On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:26:43 -0700, ScottZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > if os.name == "nt": # Windows > pcmd = "ping -n 1 -w 1000 " > else: # *nix > pcmd = "ping -c1 -W1 " Not really correct. Unfortunately there are many variants of ping for Unix, and they don't take the same flags. In Solaris, for example, -c is not a count, and -W doesn't seem to exist at all. If I recall correctly, you can't even count on Linux installations to have compatible pings. Too bad that you cannot easily implement ping in your program -- it needs extra privileges in order to handle ICMP. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
