I believe there is a built-in audible ping option (man ping). Off hand I don't recall if it's audible on response or timeout. As I recall it just calls the system bell which can also be invoked manually from the shell as well. Years ago I did write some basic ping tests in perl that shoot an email on ping failures. Let me know of you're interested and I can dig that code up. -------- Original message -------- From: Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> Date: 10/24/2013 9:22 AM (GMT-06:00) To: TCLUG <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: [tclug-list] recommended ping program 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131024/d2f654f3/attachment.html>