CIS 2279 Homework Assignment #13

CIS 2279 Homework Assignment #13

Due Monday, Dec 8, 2008

All files created must be saved in your class directory /mnt/homes/CLASSES/CIS2279/<username>

Create a perl script named lab13.pl in your user directory. The script must perform the following operations (5 points each):
1. Retrieve a list of host names using the command ypcat hosts.
2. Test each hostname found in the file to determine if they are available on the network.
3. Create a list for the hostnames that are available and a separate list of those hosts which are unavailable.
4. Print the names of the available hosts to the screen.
5. Email the names of the unavailble hosts to your email address with some descriptive text. Use lscmail.lsc.vsc.edu as the SMTP host.

last updated: 09 Dec 2008 16:05