hi
I am newbie in linux i am writting a c program under linux enviroment .........my need is to run the ping command through execl() the excat code is

execl("/sbin/ping","ping","-c 4","-q","192.168.0.8",(char *) 0);

now i need to capture the output of the ping command in a file instead of in terminal ........please help me to code it

How about using popen instead?

This would be trivial in a shell script. Why do you have the requirement to use C? Homework?

Yes---almost certainly homework.....see posting history

rajdey1;

In your other two posts---almost a year ago---you never responded to questions or posted follow-up of any kind. Both of those threads appeared to be homework also.

If you want help here, you have to respond to people's posts. In this case, crabboy has asked one specific question. I'd also like hear what the context for your question is---i.e. what is the overall objective / problem.

hi
frist of all let me make it clear its not home work ............i m new bie in linux but have good knowledge in c under windows........i am writing a program in c which is to be implemented in NIS server but i m stuck at that point..............the method to capture the output of a ping command as stated earlier ...................


Reagarding my previous post at that time i was jus trying to gather knowledge of linux as i was shifted to new project.............but i solved all the question ......moments i posted the post ...........a linux guru in another forum was very much helpfull