Your message dated Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:54:13 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line option -Z added has caused the Debian Bug report #594696, regarding zero exit code even if pings fail to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: oping Version: 1.4.0-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream oping does not communicate ping failure to the calling process like the other ping tools do. Especially in the presence of the -c option, oping should really exit non-zero if more than half the pings fail. Compare: shelter:~% ping -c1 192.168.255.254 || echo "************** Non-zero exit code: $?" #90 PING 192.168.255.254 (192.168.255.254) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 192.168.255.254 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms ************** Non-zero exit code: 1 shelter:~% ping6 -c1 1::1 || echo "************** Non-zero exit code: $?" #91 PING 1::1(1::1) 56 data bytes --- 1::1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms ************** Non-zero exit code: 1 shelter:~% oping -c1 192.168.255.254 || echo "************** Non-zero exit code: $?" #92 PING 192.168.255.254 (192.168.255.254) 56 bytes of data. echo reply from 192.168.255.254 (192.168.255.254): icmp_seq=1 timeout --- 192.168.255.254 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100.00% packet loss, time 0.0ms shelter:~% oping -c1 1::1 || echo "************** Non-zero exit code: $?" #93 PING 1::1 (1::1) 56 bytes of data. echo reply from 1::1 (1::1): icmp_seq=1 timeout --- 1::1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100.00% packet loss, time 0.0ms -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages oping depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii liboping0 1.4.0-1 C/C++ library to generate ICMP ECH oping recommends no packages. oping suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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--- Begin Message ---Package: oping Version: 1.6.1+2.g207d51d-2 This issue is addressed by the new -Z option. --Barak. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/
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