this sounds like a job for python. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/316866/ping-a-site-in-python On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > I am googling for a ping program for Ubuntu that sends and email or audio > alert if the ping request times out. Needs to run all the time rather than > cycle every few minutes. > > Any ideas? > > -- > Raymond Norton > LCTN > 952.955.7766 > > Sent from My Desktop > > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131024/a7e817f8/attachment.html>