[96483] in RedHat Linux List
Re: PING Program
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Linux User)
Tue Oct 27 12:50:17 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:19:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Linux User <linuxuser@linuxtest.fellows.denison.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <199810270138.TAA27092@isunix.it.ilstu.edu>
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Thank you everyone who helped me out to get the script running,
Thanks Tim, it was educational.
And thanks Kevin for pointing me to fping
Here is the script that I finally decided to use. it works well..
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#!/bin/sh
# Uses fping. RPM available in contrib directory, REDHAT distribution
datafile="rundata"
hostfile="hostlist"
rm -f $datafile
date > $datafile
fping -r 0 -sq -f $hostfile >> $datafile
cat $datafile | mail -s "ping results" root
exit
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the OUTPUT looks like this :
Mon Oct 26 20:08:17 EST 1998
3060 hosts
489 alive
2571 unreachable
0 unknown addresses
5631 timeouts (waiting for response)
3060 pings sent
563 pings received
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Now I just need to get it into a cron job
thanks again,
Fahd Sultan
Software Techie
Denison U.
linuxuser@linuxtest.fellows.denison.edu
sultan_f@denison.edu
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