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From: peiffer@cs.umn.edu (Tim Peiffer (The Net Guy))
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: quick check for available host
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.040029.29288@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 90 04:00:29 GMT
References: <771@tiamat.fsc.com> <1990Oct3.200749.16049@cbnewsk.att.com>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - CSCI Dept.
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In article <1990Oct3.200749.16049@cbnewsk.att.com> lih@cbnewsk.att.com (andrew.a.lih) writes:
>In article <771@tiamat.fsc.com>, jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) writes:
>> What is a quick way for a shell script to find out if a networked
>> host is currently available?

	If you want more than what 'ping' offers, but not the mess
	that rwho provides, check out rup(), and rusers().

Tim
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