You can always take the ping source and modify it to your own needs. no big deal. Dani On Thu, 31 May 2001, Noam Meltzer wrote: > Well guys thank you all... but that what i really didn't want... sctipts > i can write my self. > What i really wanted is to find out if you can get what the ping binary > in solaris does not a scripts to emulate it. > Is there such a tool for linux? > > Noam > > rcs wrote: > > > Ooops! > > and > > if [ $# != 2 ]... > > should be > > if [ $# != 1 ] > > > > Sorry, it's been a long long day. here's the new code: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > if [ $# != 1 ]; then echo "usage: $0 <host>"; exit; fi > > ping -c 1 $1 >/dev/null 2>&1 > > if [ $? == 0 ] > > then > > echo $1 is alive > > else > > echo $1 is not answering (to ICMP echo-request) > > fi > > > > Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> rcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>> #!/bin/sh > >>> if [ $# != 2 ]; then echo "usage: $0 <host>"; exit; fi > >>> ping -c 1 $1 > >>> if [ $? == 0 ] > >>> then > >>> echo $0 is alive. > >>> else > >>> echo $0 is not answering (to ICMP echo-request). > >>> fi > >> > >> $0 should be $1, shouldn't it? > >> > >> -- > >> Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> If it aint't broken it hasn't got enough features yet. > > > > > > ================================================================= > 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] > ================================================================= 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]