Hi /usr/bin/ping does not return the correct return code on ping failure. See example below, the .8 host does not exist, .9 does exist:
$ ping 56 1 192.168.20.9 > /dev/null ; echo $? 0 $ ping 56 1 192.168.20.8 > /dev/null ; echo $? 0 I checked Linux and Windows versions of ping and they work correctly. $ ping -c 1 192.168.20.8 > /dev/null ; echo $? 1 $ ping -c 1 192.168.20.9 > /dev/null ; echo $? 0 $ /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ping.exe -n 1 \ > 192.168.20.8 > /dev/null ; echo $? 1 $ /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ping.exe -n 1 \ > 192.168.20.9 > /dev/null ; echo $? 0 I didn't look into the ping source, so no diff ... I just aliased ping with the windows version as a workaround. Kind regards, Tom Van Looy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
