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• Follow the instructions at:  Installation Overview
  • tar xzf pinger-2.0.3.tar.gz
  • cd pinger-2.0.3
  • ./configure (example)
  • make test_prereqs
  • make (example)
• Then 
  • make install (example)
  • make install_cron (example). Following this one has to move the line added at the end to above where Taylor makes changes to the file (example).

Verify installation

• To see if the cronjob is running look at the dates on the files /usr/local/share/pinger/pingerCronStat.stdout and /usr/local/share/pinger/pingerCronStat.stderr, they should be withing the last 30 mins (example)
•  Examine the above files (in particular the stderr file) to verify pinger2.pl is properly configured (an example of a typical error in the stderr file). If all is well then the stderr file will be empty. Example of a normal stdout file.

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