Re: Net_ping problems

Jan, I'm using it too :-P -- Nicos - CHAILLAN Nicolas nicos@php.net www.WorldAKT.com - Hébergement de sites Internet "Jan Lehnardt" <jan@php.net> a écrit dans le message de news: 20021014200901.A756@dahlia.dasmoped.net... > Hey there, > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:35:20PM +0100, Simon H wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE/PHP 4.2.3 port (CLI, not mod_php, its installed > > also) > > > > I'm using Net_Ping to monitor our customers ADSL connections, running a script > > in a crontab every 15 mins. The strange thing is the script runs fine from the > > commandline, but when run from crontab I get an email from crontab telling me: > > heh, there is actually somebody using it :) > > > > -c: Not Found > > -c: Not Found > > -c: Not Found > > -c: Not Found > > -c: Not Found > > -c: Not Found > > > > (I'm monitoring 6 IP's) > can you give me the rest of your script, I'll have a look at this asap. > > > The only place I can find a "-c" is for the "count" switch in Net/Ping.php. I'm > > not sure if thats what this error means, but if it is, why only from a crontab > > and not from the commandline? Is it an error from the script, Ping class, cron, > > php? > > the error seem to come from ping (stating that it doesn't know the option -c). > > > How about wrapping the responses from the ping, rather than just providing an > > array. So that we can catch "Packets Sent", "Packets Received", etc each in > > their own variable, without having all the rest of the text to strip. I have > > done this crudely myself, but it is not portable, and I'm not that great at PHP > > just yet, sits likely a bit ropey! > > I defenatly want this to happen, but the main problem is that ping output > on every system (even the BSD's are not on the same way here). So we need to > write a parser to find each information for every system. Looks like a neat > preg_match exercise, but I don't have the time right now, anyone? To see > how messy the OS differenecs are, have a look how the command string is > populated. > > > Jan > -- > Q: Thank Jan? A: http://geschenke.an.dasmoped.net/ > Got an old and spare laptop? Please send me a mail. > Key 7BCC EB86 8313 DDA9 25DF > Fingerprint 1805 ECA5 BCB7 BB96 56B0