[BostonMACOSX]

I'm trying to write a shell script with ping.
trouble is is that ping on OS X returns 0 with successful xmit and receive and also 0 with successful xmit and no receive and only returns 1 when the host can't be found. This is not how ping is suppose to work. The only way that ping should return 0 is on a complete success.

What gives? Is this an OS X error.

Thanks
Robert

[suthercd]

Robert,
This performs as advertised on my machine:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

# pingreturnvalue.sh

HOST=some.address.here.com
if ping -c 1 $HOST &> /dev/null ; then
        echo "Successful ping to $HOST"
else
        echo "Ping failed to $HOST"
fi

HTH
Craig

[BostonMACOSX]

Originally posted by suthercd:
Robert,
This performs as advertised on my machine:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

# pingreturnvalue.sh

HOST=some.address.here.com
if ping -c 1 $HOST &> /dev/null ; then
        echo "Successful ping to $HOST"
else
        echo "Ping failed to $HOST"
fi

HTH
Craig

I've tried that.....it successes on machine where you can send a packet but isn't returnable.
That is the error I'm finding with ping.

So lets say I ping tony.tony.tony no DNS machine off I get ping failed.
I ping ***.***.*** where the macine exists but is behind a firewall I get a success.
I ping 192.168.X.X on my local network I get a success.

It is the middle condition which should be a failure.

OS X 10.3.4.