Anyone decent with Perl?

by **MrConfigT** on Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:06 am

I currently have a perl script...

In this script I ping some hosts read from a host database table in mysql. I right now if I ping each host 10 times and each ping takes a second, then I can only do 6 hosts a minute. I need this script to run every minute. And I have hundreds of hosts (theoritcally). So I need to build in some 'threading' capability.

I need it to ping these hosts concurrently and I'm pretty new to perl. Will calling fork() work for this? Also, would anyone be willing to take a look at some code to see where I would need to fork (or whatever) for this to work?

by **autoload** on Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:55 am

Can anybody help this guy?

by **Skittles!** on Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:02 am

autoload wrote:Can anybody help this guy?

I'm saddened to tell you that he cannot be helped.

by **MeDeFe** on Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:02 am

Isn't that the "Tim Towdi" language? If so you should have a lot of possibilities to implement that. The downside is that you have dozens of ways of implementing it.