<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body >I believe there is a built-in audible ping option (man ping). Off hand I don't recall if it's audible on response or timeout. As I recall it just calls the system bell which can also be invoked manually from the shell as well. <div><br></div><div>Years ago I did write some basic ping tests in perl that shoot an email on ping failures. Let me know of you're interested and I can dig that code up. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Raymond Norton <admin@lctn.org> <br>Date: 10/24/2013 9:22 AM (GMT-06:00) <br>To: TCLUG <tclug-list@mn-linux.org> <br>Subject: [tclug-list] recommended ping program <br> <br><br>I am googling for a ping program for Ubuntu that sends and email or <br>audio alert if the ping request times out. Needs to run all the time <br>rather than cycle every few minutes.<br><br>Any ideas?<br><br>-- <br>Raymond Norton<br>LCTN<br>952.955.7766<br><br>Sent from My Desktop<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br></body>