Don't we love repling to our own posts... > > > # Do our monitoring here. These values are unique per DB > > > entry. > > > $ping = Net::Ping->new("icmp", 10); > > > if (!($ping->ping($IPAddr))) { > > > Notify_Mail($Email); > > > Notify_Admins($LineNumber); > > > }; > > > $ping->close(); > > > > Does this work on any Unix systems without root privilege? > > Yup, it even works on NT machines *if* the running user has adminsitrative > rights. Correction... I didn't react on the "without" part..... I have not tested it on Unix... If anyone is willing, it will be appreciated. On NT however, works with administrative (root) rights... --- Regards, Chris Knipe Cell: (083) 430-8151 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org