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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Dumb question on the ping command Post 302907336 by soleblazer on Friday 27th of June 2014 09:43:22 AM
Old 06-27-2014
Dumb question on the ping command
I have a continuous ping running with export/timestamp to a file. It ran for about 10 hours and the last line in my output is:

ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable

It looks like the ping stopped after that occurred. Should it do that? Is there a way to make that not happen?

I'm running the ping via a simple loop on the command line. I think ping just broke out and stopped, but I figured I would show how I'm running this.

Anyone know what I can do to make ping continue after a failure like that? By default it should just keep going
Code:
nohup ping -i 10 <SERVERNAME> | while read line; do echo "$(date): $line" ; done >> pinglog_.log &

Last edited by joeyg; 06-27-2014 at 10:45 AM.. Reason: Please wrap commands and data in Codetags
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

macping

MACPING(1)						      General Commands Manual							MACPING(1)

NAME

       macping - A tool for pinging other RouterOS or mactelnetd devices

SYNOPSIS

       mactelnet [options] <MAC-Address|hostname>

DESCRIPTION

       This  tool  enables  you to ping other RouterOS or MAC-Telnetd enabled devices. You can ping either a hostname or a MAC address.  If speci-
       fied, the hostname (identity) will be looked up via MNDP discovery.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax.  A summary of options is included below.

       -f     Fast mode, do not wait before sending next ping request. The next ping will be sent immediately when the last ping is received. This
	      cannot be used with -c 0

       -s     Specify the amount of bytes to send in each ping packet, up to ~1400 bytes.

       -c     Number of packets to send before exiting. A value of 0 means unlimited packets and the tool must be exited with Control + C.

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -v     Show version of program.

SEE ALSO

       mndp(1), mactelnet(1), mactelnetd(1).

AUTHOR

       macping was written by Hakon Nessjoen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Hakon Nessjoen <haakon.nessjoen@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

								 February 27, 2011							MACPING(1)
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