<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">There are many examples using bash out there.<div><br></div><div>A great how-to that explains the piece of the code:</div><div><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/733418/how-can-i-write-a-linux-bash-script-that-tells-me-which-computer-are-on-in-my-l">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/733418/how-can-i-write-a-linux-bash-script-that-tells-me-which-computer-are-on-in-my-l</a></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Joel Longanecker <<a href="mailto:joel.longanecker@gmail.com">joel.longanecker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>this sounds like a job for python.</div><div> </div><div><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/316866/ping-a-site-in-python">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/316866/ping-a-site-in-python</a></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Raymond Norton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:admin@lctn.org" target="_blank">admin@lctn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am googling for a ping program for Ubuntu that sends and email or audio alert if the ping request times out. Needs to run all the time rather than cycle every few minutes.<br>
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