Hi All:

A newbie to Perl, I have been wrestling with Ping for a couple of days now, and have completely run out of ideas.

In part of a process, I am pre-checking to ensure the remote servers are available, before modifying files and sending them to those servers.

My unit test includes the following rows in my ini file:

DBSERVER0    =  \\PLYSDEV03\DEV03-    
DBSERVER1    =
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My code strips the DBSERVERn value down to just the servername and pings it. (The second one intentionally has a blank value and should, therefore, fail the ping.)

BUT . . . both pings pass the test!

Following is the relevant code within the loop through the DBSERVERn keys in the ini section.I'm using use Net::Ping;

   printf "$_: $dbSrvrUNC\n";

   my $dbSrvrBox = $dbSrvrUNC;
   $dbSrvrBox =~ s/^(\\\\)//;             # Get rid of any leading "\"
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   if ($dbSrvrBox =~ /\w+/)
   {$dbSrvrBox = $&};                  # Save only the box name

printf "DB Server to be tested for accessibility: $dbSrvrBox\n\n";

# Ensure the connection to the DB Server is available
   if (pingecho($dbSrvrBox, $timeout)) {
      &msgLog ("DB Server ($dbSrvrBox) is accessible at startup.\n");
      printf "\n$dbSrvrBox is accessible at startup.\n\n";
   }
   else  {
       &msgLog ("Cannot access $dbSrvrBox - abending.\n\n");
         &stdErr ("Cannot access $dbSrvrBox - abending.\n\n");
         &abend ("Cannot access $dbSrvrBox ");
   };
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Following is the related output:

DBSERVER0: \\PLYSDEV03\DEV03-
DB Server to be tested for accessibility: PLYSDEV03


PLYSDEV03 is accessible at startup.

DBSERVER1:
DB Server to be tested for accessibility:


 is accessible at startup.

Processing to be performed for:
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Thanks in advance for your help!