From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 20 09:59:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA15308 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 09:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from milehigh.denver.net (milehigh.denver.net [204.144.180.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA15302 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 09:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jdc@localhost) by milehigh.denver.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA01942; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:00:10 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <19970920110009.05251@denver.net> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:00:09 -0600 From: John-David Childs To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tester ditty (fwd) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Fri, Sep 19, 1997 at 11:32:59PM -0700 Organization: Enterprise Internet Solutions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Friday September 19, 1997, Doug White had this to say about "Re: tester ditty (fwd)": > On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, 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? > > Big brother was mentioned. our network services dept. has something which Two others I've used: nocol-4.01 (character-based) scotty/tkined (character or X-Windows) Scotty/Tkined takes a little more work imho, but may be more "satisfying" for the graphically dependent. -- John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions System Administrator @denver.net/Internet-Coach/@ronan.net & Network Engineer 1031 S. Parker Rd. #I-8 Denver, CO 80231 As of this^H^H^H^H next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.