Why not very simple? I think he just wants to check if a port is open. Obviously checking if a server is *working* requires very software specific code, but checking to see if a port is open shouldnt be much more than a hundred lines of code. Am i right? On Friday 28 March 2003 10:13 am, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:58:23AM -0600, Brent Clements wrote: > > Does anyone have an example of a simple tcp client(in c) that checks to > > see if a service is up and running and if not report an error? > > In generic terms that is not a SIMPLE thing. > > If you want to be fairly sure that for example SMTP service works, > you do need to probe the server by sending a test message to it. > > From a web-server you need to retrieve a web-page to see that > it works. > > > Thanks, > > Brent > > /Matti Aarnio > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- #------------------------ #Eric Bambach #Eric@CISU.net #------------------------ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
