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Author: KevinBuettnerkev@primenet.com
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Subject: simple ping
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.




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