delayed ping batch file??

[Pharquah]

Right, I'm pretty poor at this batch file malarky, so can anyone help?
I need a batch file that will send a ping out once every 30 seconds. I got a kinda crappy way of doing it with a load of pings to 127.0.0.1 followed by a ping to the address I want to ping in a goto loop. But it just looks so amateurish, there has to be a better way to do it.
Any ideas???

Thanks.

 

[FilthPig]

sleep x with x being the number of seconds to wait. Marc Creviere

 

[Pharquah]

Okay, this is what I've tried:


:label
ping ipaddress -n 2
sleep 5
goto label


What's wrong? It won't work under NT, 2K or 95?

Thanks

 

[FilthPig]

Looks good to me, what's not working about it? Marc Creviere

 

[Pharquah]

I'm getting the 'sleep' is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file message.

Arghhh!

Thanks for the pointer

Dave Lowton

 

[FilthPig]

I apologize, that is a Win2k command. I'll return to the drawing board. Marc Creviere

 

[FilthPig]

Again, I apologize, that is a Win2k Resource Kit command. I believe it is included in several other resource kits as well. Marc Creviere

 

[yizhar]

HI!

I have written a free utility that can do it.
It is called KIT and is available from here:

http://teachers.sivan.co.il/yizhar/#NUTS

You can also simply write your batch file
PING x.x.x.x
and schedult it using AT commands or "Scheduled Tasks".

Bye

Yizhar Hurwitz

http://come.to/yizhar

http://teachers.sivan.co.il/yizhar

 

[Pharquah]

Thanks Yizhar, that seems to have done the trick quite nicely, and thanks Filthpig, Nice try. I'd still like to know if it can be done with a batch file though...

Dave

 

[FilthPig]

Pharquah, it can be done with a batch file, you just have to have a resource kit installed. Or at least sleep.exe installed. If you've got TechNet, you've got it. Marc Creviere

 

[Pharquah]

Yep, but this is something that I'm going to have roll out to lots of users, on multiple Microsoft OS's, so I don't want all of them installing the resource kit...I mean they're lusers, but one of them might find something...useful... Know what I mean..?

Dave

 

[FilthPig]

Ahh, gotcha. Yeah, we've got engineers too. Marc Creviere

 

[mcconmw]

You could do something like....

if not exist c:\sleep.exe copy \\servername\sharename c:
:label
ping ipaddress -n 2
sleep 5
goto label


OR

:label
ping ipaddress -n 2
\\servername\sharename\sleep 5
goto label

 

[Guest_imported]

Do this:
@echo off
:start
ping x.x.x.x
echo Testing a delay, starting at ...
echo.| time | find /v "new"
choice /c:. /t:.,60 /n Pausing for sixty seconds
echo ending at ...
echo.| time | find /v "new"
goto start

This has a little extra stuff in there for logging times,
but I am sure you can take it from here.

 

[jnicks]

Cool Turbodog

Nice work.

If one expands the t:.,60 to 300 and note that looking in a ping output for 'unknown' will return an errorlevel 0 if found and 1 if not found, we can answer that quesiton of how to check a server every 5 minutes.

and if it is down send or net send or something.


Does that work?

j

 

[tls9923]

If you are wanting to check the status of servers or ip addresses then send messages there is software that does a good job and is not too expensive. Take a look at What's Up Gold.

http://WWW.ipswitch.com

Terrel