simple ping

Kevin Buettner kev@primenet.com
Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:54:55 -0700


On Oct 5,  3:38pm, Mike Starke wrote:

> This is simple: How can I ping a host to determine
> if it is up? How do I get back the error codes 0,1, 2?

How 'bout

    ping -c 1 -q hostname

Hmm... I'm seeing error codes 0 and 1, but not 2.