Hi! I know that on Solaris the output of "ping" is "<host> is alive" or "service not avaiable" (or something like that) i was wandering how i can achieve such answer in linux. noam ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]