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Old 04-12-2013
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Hello all,

I am writing a script that pings various machines to check connectivity.
If a machine is available, the prompt returns a result immediately:

Code:
root@ops # ping 172.21.5.5
172.21.5.5 is alive

BUT

if a machine is Down , the reply takes a long time to come. The issue is I want to run this script in cron after every 1 minute and I have to ping 100+ machines.

How can I reduce the time for a single ping so that it can immediately return the result of system not being available ?
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Old 04-12-2013
Code:
ping -c 1 -t 5  172.21.5.5

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