My boss has asked me if I can do something simple as a System Task. We have a
problem with our T1 supplier Cable & Phoneless^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hWireless.
Their links keep dropping & we need to periodically PING the remote Routers at
each plant to see if the connection is up. He wants me to write a simple task
that
will wake up once every 2 minutes and PING each plant, reporting to the Console
and to each MANAGER logged on. I would like to programmatically call
PING.ARPA.SYS from a System Routine. He wants a system routine so we don't
have to add another background job (We already have 6). I know it can be done
because Beechglen has a job which starts it's own System Task. The job ends off
but the task keeps going. To stop the task, you delete a file in PUB.SYS that
the
task creates as it launches.
   I think I remember in the old classic Intrinsics manual that you could call
CREATEPROCESS with a parm that would cause the task to be spawned off
independent of the parent task.
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Tom Thacker
System Manager & EDI Guru
Leslie-Locke Inc
Atlanta, GA
HP3000-967 MPE/iX 5.0 (Cant upgrade to 5.5 - Growthpower 7.06 won't work).