Cron: Pinging Hosts Sep 8, 2007, 08 :00 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (5652 reads) (Other stories by Juliet Kemp)
"I realised a while ago that it would be a useful thing to check, occasionally, that all the machines I'm responsible for are still up. (This helps to minimise those embarrassing 'Oh, I didn't know there was anything wrong with it' conversations.)
"Thus, the following pretty basic perl script, which I run from /etc/crontab on my own desktop every couple of hours..."
