ping with a sun script

[visvid]

Hi can anyone help, looking to see if anyone knows how to give me an ip address back from a ping on sun, as it just says alive:

I am wanting to test printers on the system
#!/bin/ksh
###### Script to Test remote printers are working ###########################
for n in `pg /etc/printers.conf | grep :bsdaddr | awk -F= '{print $2}' | awk -F, '{print $1}'`

do
A=`ping -c 1 $n 2>/dev/null`
if [ -z "$A" ]; then
B="NOTFOUND"
else
B=`echo "$A" | grep packet | awk '{print $(NF-2)}'`
fi

if [ $B = "100%" ]; then
echo $n FAILED
elif [ $B = "0%" ]; then
echo $n OK
else
echo $n NOT FOUND
fi

done
##### NF=Number of Fields

this -c 1 works great with AIX , but cant find syntax to work on Sun. Any ideas

 

[tikual]

I guess $n is a ip, right?

try it:
if ping $n
then
B=`echo "$A" | grep packet | awk '{print $(NF-2)}'`
else
B="NOTFOUND"
fi
.
.
.


tikual

 

[visvid]

no $n is the names of the printer , hence we get "is alive " when we run the script rather than IP address

 

[tikual]

ok, ping name or ip just same.

#-s : if no -s, it just gives you alive or not, -s is for continously.
#64 : size of packets
#10 : time of court, that means send packets ten times
if ping -s $n 64 10
then
B=`echo "$A" | grep packet | awk '{print $(NF-2)}'`
else
B="NOTFOUND"
fi
.
.
.

tikual

 

[marrow]

Just an idea, how about trying a different method?
the command "traceroute hostname" can be verbose but will supply an IP address. Or "grep hostname /etc/hosts"

 

[marrow]

ping -a hostname
will supply IP address

 

[visvid]

A=`ping -s $n 56 1 2> /dev/null`


work great , cheers for help