$OpenBSD: patch-fping_8,v 1.1 2001/12/06 06:05:43 form Exp $ --- fping.8.orig Thu Jan 9 00:48:49 1997 +++ fping.8 Thu Dec 6 11:42:11 2001 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH fping l +.TH fping 8 .SH NAME fping \- send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ example: somehost : 91.7 37.0 29.2 - 36.8 -shows the response time in milliseconds for each of the five requests, +shows the response time in microseconds for each of the five requests, with the "-" indicating that no response was received to the fourth request. .IP \fB-d\fR 5 @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ root user. Regular users should pipe in .IP \fB-h\fR 5 Print usage message. .IP \fB-i\fIn\fR 5 -The minimum amount of time (in milliseconds) between sending a ping packet to any target (default is 25). + The minimum amount of time (in microseconds) between sending a ping packet to any host (default is 25). .IP \fB-l\fR 5 Loop sending packets to each target indefinitely. Can be interrupted with ctl-C; statistics about responses for each target are then displayed. @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Send pings to each of a target host's mu Same as -d. .IP \fB-p\fR 5 In looping or counting modes (-l, -c, or -C), this parameter sets the -time in milliseconds that +time in microseconds that .B fping waits between successive packets to an individual target. Default is 1000. @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ a target will be made, not including the .IP \fB-s\fR 5 Print cumulative statistics upon exit. .IP \fB-t\fIn\fR 5 -Initial target timeout in milliseconds (default 500). In the default +Initial target timeout in microseconds (default 2500). In the default mode, this is the amount of time that .B fping waits for a response to its first request. Successive timeouts are @@ -141,12 +141,12 @@ Sure the open2 usage is not needed in th example none the less. .nf -#!/usr/local/bin/perl +#!/usr/bin/perl require 'open2.pl'; $MAILTO = "root"; -$pid = &open2("OUTPUT","INPUT","/usr/local/bin/fping -u"); +$pid = &open2("OUTPUT","INPUT","/usr/local/sbin/fping -u"); @check=("slapshot","foo","foobar"); @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Another good example is when you want to that are currently reachable. .nf -#!/usr/local/bin/perl +#!/usr/bin/perl $hosts_to_backup = `cat /etc/hosts.backup | fping -a`;