A win95 question

[Timothy W Haven]

To open another can of worms, do you know Perl?
Using Perl on the server with a ping script on the client might be an answer.
Unfortunately, the "Perl for System Administration" O'Reilly book 
seems to ignore Win95/98 in favor of NT/2000.
(They have a nice script on p.119 for counting process names on UNIX.)
And a script for getting the list of running processes on Win32 (p. 103)

<Soapbox> This book is worth getting for the Appendix Tutorials:
 The 5-minute RCS; 10-minute LDAP; 8-minute XML; 15-minute SQL; 20-minute SNMP.
These don't have any Perl in them, they are just tutorials.
</Soapbox>

Timothy

On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:22:14PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Bill Horne <bhorne at banet.net> writes:
> 
> > I won't have access to the IP; it's assigned dynamically at logon.
> > Unless the script could report it to the server ...
> 
> That was what I was implying.
> 
> > > But I'm not convinced you even need to do that.  If you're not connected,
> > > the ping will fail.  But that should
> > > be ok.
> > 
> > Will it generate error messages that confuse the users?
> 
> It shouldn't.  You'd basically have a "console" for the process, but
> the user should just ignore it.
> 
> -derek
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