Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't

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Re: [BackupPC-users] Alternative way to check if Host is alive -- can't use Ping

From:

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>

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backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net

Date:

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:50:56 -0500

On 3/30/2010 11:31 AM, John BORIS wrote:
> All of the suggestions will work but has anyone setup BackupPC to use 
> something other than Ping to see if the host is alive? I have telnet 
> available and someone else suggested httping but the ping command is used to 
> send a few requests to just test the machine.
> I don't see anything in the BackupPC docs how to setup an alternative.

See the docs for $Conf{PingPath}.  You could just set it to /bin/true 
unless it takes too long for a failed connection to time out when the 
host is really down.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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