Matthew Burgess wrote:
> iputils was mentioned by Ag
> Hatzim, and is what my host (ubuntu) uses. Unfortunately, the very
> first thing I see in the Makefile (and what caused my initial
> compilation attempt to fail) is:
>
> KERNEL_INCLUDE=/usr/src/linux/include
>
> Ouch! It wants /usr/src/linux!
Yes, that is a problem. However the iputils version of ping is much
better than that of inetutils. For instance, the inet version does not
have an option (-W) to set the time to wait for a ping. That is very
useful in writing a script to ping a set of hosts:
!/bin/bash
function pingit
{
#ping -W1 -c1 $1
count=`ping -W1 -c1 $1|tail -n2|head -n1|cut -d" " -f4`
if [ $count -ne 0 ]; then
echo "$1 OK $2"
else
echo "$1 - no ping $2"
fi
}
pingit 192.168.1.4 "sys1"
pingit 192.168.1.5 "sys2"
etc.
-- Bruce
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