finn.drablos@sintef.no (Finn Drablos) (06/07/91)
A short and simple (?) question: How do I test, from within a shell script, whether a remote machine is responding to network requests or not? I guess that I am looking for something like ping, but according to the man page, ping should not be used in scripts ... Regards, ================== Finn Drablos PHONE +47 7 997710 FAX +47 7 997708 MR-Senteret, UNIMED, SINTEF drablos@marvin.mr.sintef.no N-7034 TRONDHEIM, NORWAY finn.drablos@sintef.no ----------------------------------------------------------------------
arc@kaibab.wpd.sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson) (06/08/91)
In article <288*finn.drablos@sintef.no> finn.drablos@sintef.no (Finn Drablos) writes: >A short and simple (?) question: >How do I test, from within a shell script, whether a remote >machine is responding to network requests or not? > >I guess that I am looking for something like ping, but >according to the man page, ping should not be used in >scripts ... > >Regards, > >================== > >Finn Drablos PHONE +47 7 997710 FAX +47 7 997708 >MR-Senteret, UNIMED, SINTEF drablos@marvin.mr.sintef.no >N-7034 TRONDHEIM, NORWAY finn.drablos@sintef.no >---------------------------------------------------------------------- Try "rpcinfo -u HOST portmap" (see rpcinfo(1M) for details).