From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 19 06:14:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA10916 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 06:14:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com (BIGFUN.vwcom.com [151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA10909 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 06:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id JAA05003 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:09:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from current.willscreek.com (current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA23740 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:14:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA00473; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:06:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:06:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199709191306.JAA00473@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tester ditty (fwd) In-Reply-To: <76378096@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Hovey wrote: > Im trying to set up a system of checks that will beep me of something isnt > working - I use ping to see if machines are up or not, but could use > something that will check that a port is being answered - for instance, > something that would connect to a mail or web port and return an > errorlevel if nothing is answering that port - does anyone know of > anything like that available anywhere? Try Big Brother. It's available as port `bb'. The author, Sean MacGuire, also has a Big Brother web page: See http://www.iti.qc.ca/iti/users/sean/bb-dnld/index.html ----- Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ Lack of skill dictates economy of style. -- Joey Ramone