Ping Script

[Nunim]

Ok I need a script that will send a ping every 5 mins or so and report back the results to a php page... can anyone help me?

 

[Peter]

take a look at http://uk.php.net/function.exec take particular interest in the comment at the bottom by bishupaulose at yahoo dot com

it shows you the command you actually need, use this and run it as a cron job

 

[shade]

crontab -e

* 10/* * * * root: ping whateverhostyouwanttopint

 

[Nunim]

im not so great with php so can i get some help?

 

[YUPAPA]

You mean you want to post the result to a php page?
You can use crontab to ping a host and then output the results to a file. Make the php script read the result file and output it on the page.

 

[Nunim]

Ok here is what I want, I need a script that will ping an IP, this script or another script will take the results and post them onto a php page in the form of online or offline.

 

[YUPAPA]

You obviously requires crontab to do this schedually.
However, You can have the script to ping and output the result immidately, but the downside is, it may take a while to execute it. :]