On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Michael J. McGillick wrote:
>
> Afternoon:
>
> I was looking at the ping output from a SuSE distribution, and noticed
> that the ping times were coming back with precision to 3 decimal places,
> instead of the normal 1 place with the Red Hat set up. How do I change
> this to be 3 decimal places for the output of ping under a Red Hat 6.2
> install?
>
I'm sort of stumped. I already checked the manual page for ping, and did
not find any mention to this "capability". Perhaps the version of iputils
running in that SuSE box is different? I can tell you I also run Debian
(potato) at home and it does not show that many decimals, however another
FreeBSD box I administer certainly displays the information you're talking
about.
This is what I get about the one I have installed over here:
[jortega@coimbra /etc]$ rpm -qf /bin/ping
iputils-20000121-2
[jortega@coimbra /etc]$ rpm -qi iputils
Name : iputils Relocations: /usr
Version : 20000121 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 2 Build Date: Mon 06 Mar 2000
08:57:57 AM CST
Install date: Mon 29 May 2000 08:49:53 PM CDT Build
Host: porky.devel.redhat.com
Group : System Environment/Daemons Source
RPM: iputils-20000121-2.src.rpm
Size : 116986 License: BSD
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary : The ping program for checking to see if network hosts are
alive.
Description :
The iputils package contains ping, a basic networking tool. The ping
command sends a series of ICMP protocol ECHO_REQUEST packets to a
specified network host and can tell you if that machine is alive and
receiving network traffic.
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