is_up

Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: Library Commands (3)
Updated: 03 February 2009
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NAME

is_up - test if a host is up

 

SYNOPSIS

edrc/lib/is_up -h

is_up host

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/edrc

 

DESCRIPTION

Test if a host is up by pinging it or by connecting to alternate ports on the system.

The advantage of using is_up instead of ping(8) and ping6(8) is, that this command has identical usage on different operating systems.

When ping (ICMP echo) is not allowed/enabled to test the peer's availability is_up tries to connect to the ports 22 and 513-514.

 

OPTIONS

-h
print usage message.

host
name or IP address of host to test.

 

ENVIRONMENT

-

 

EXIT STATUS

0
host reached.

1
host not reached.

2
operating system not supported. See osid(3) if you get this error.

4
usage message printed.

 

FILES

-

 

EXAMPLES

-

 

SEE ALSO

edrcintro(1), nc(3), ping(8), ping6(8), portscan(3), rsh(1), ssh(1)

 

NOTES

-

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

is_up was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net . 

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 Christian Walther

This is free software; see edrc/doc/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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