Comments on: Ping range of IP addresses in parallel with fping

By: hozefa

hozefa — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:20:47 +0000

Can you guys help me install fping so that I can run it through Cygwin on a windows desktop.

Thanks

By: kalyan

kalyan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:05:19 +0000

Hi friends,

Thanx for all your replys.

cheers,
kalyan.

By: alvaro

alvaro — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:09:37 +0000

Personally, i think it’s better to use
rm -rf /root/livestb.*

than

rm /root/livestb.* && echo "File removed successfully"

By the way, i recommend you not to make scripts with root powers (uhm, quite dangerous).

Thanks

By: pellgarlic

pellgarlic — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:44:36 +0000

it seems that you may be confusing the file that fping reads from, with a file you want to have the output stored in -

to have fping read from a file, do this:

fping -f /path/to/file

to save the ouput of fping to a file, do this:

fping -f /path/to/file > /path/to/save/to

(the “>” can be used to redirect the terminal output of any command-line command to a file)

By: pellgarlic

pellgarlic — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:48:58 +0000

so, maybe something like this:

fping -f /root/stb > /root/livestb.`date +%d%I%M`

By: pellgarlic

pellgarlic — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:47:28 +0000

hi kalyan, what you’re missing is the redirection… you would need to replace “fping /root/stb” with something like this:

“fping -f /file/with/list/of/ips/to/ping > results/of/fping”

(i.e. - you need 2 files -

1 - the list of ip addresses to ping
2 - the output of the fping command)

By: Kalyan

Kalyan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:25:31 +0000

Hi artiomix,pellgarlic

I am using below script my problem is here,i put this script in crontab to run daily 3 times and move the file “stb” to desktop of another system in the network by using ” mv /root/stb /root/livestb.`date +%d%I%M` && scp livestb.* root@192.168.0.20:/root/Desktop” as a script but final output on the desktop is empty file.

#!/bin/sh
#
#Script to ping all the hosts
#
rm /root/livestb.* && echo “File removed successfully” #To remove previously run file
fping /root/stb
echo ” ***completed*** ”
exit 0

Please can u correct me.

thanks in advance.

By: artiomix

artiomix — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:23:15 +0000

Hi Kalyan, you’re more than welcome!

By: Kalyan

Kalyan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:15:16 +0000

Hi artiomix

Thanks!

Cheers.

By: Kalyan

Kalyan — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:13:02 +0000

sudo fping -f /tmp/ips
4.2.2.4 is alive
64.233.187.99 is alive
216.239.47.1 is alive

Hi pellgarlic

Thanks for all the above comments,i followed the above with little modification to suit my need and it’s working fine.

cheers