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Old 12-12-2002
Kevin Pryke Kevin Pryke is offline
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To see if a ping has worked, check the return value ($?)

ie. something like
Code:
ping -c1 <server_name>
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
    echo "Not Found"
else
    echo "Found
fi
added code tags for readability --oombera
Last edited by oombera; 02-17-2004 at 03:12 PM..