On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:10:47AM +0000, James Hogarth wrote: > > > > I would use tcping too, if it were available on these other systems I > > expect my scripts to run on. > > > > Thanks for spotting my dumb mistake in the parsing. > > > > > > > Are you sure nmap is on all these systems? It quite often isn't (not a > default package anyway) for security reasons (no need to make scanning the > network any easier) ... > Well, it is installed on the server I was testing on but then I realised that particular version does not recognize -Pn. So back to square one. :-/ > If you need to install nmap you might as well install tcping at the same > time ;) > Installing anything is out of the question since I do not have admin rights in any of these other machines. I guess checking for installed packages is the only option left now. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org