Thanks I will have a look at fping. I need to set-up a script for testing
purposes. To be practical I need the script to read a file of hosts
david
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:19:49PM -0500, rpjday wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, David Brett wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to pipe to ping without success.
> > >
> > > awk '{print$1} testfiles | ping -nc 1
> > >
> > > testfile is
> > >
> > > 10.1.1.1 server1
> > > 10.1.1.2 server2
> > >
> > > Any ideas why I can't pipe to ping?
> >
> > perhaps because, according to ping, it doesn't accept hostnames
> > on standard input. also, it doesn't *appear* to accept multiple
> > arguments.
>
> You might look at fping. IIRC, it can read a lists of host from a
> file. Not sure what your end game is, but fping does certain things
> that are much more scriptable than std ping.
>
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