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software which should not run as root, and doing this manually after a pkg_add update is error-prone. - rewrite DESCR. clearly note that the binaries are made setuid. - Makefile de-uglification. - bump PKGNAME. no objections to the setuid change from ajacoutot@, weerd@ "I think its utterly retarded not to suid it for you" phessler@
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fping quickly pings multiple hosts, specified on the command-line or
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in a file, to determine their reachability without flooding the network.
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Instead of trying one host until it times out or replies, fping will
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send out a ping packet and move on to the next host in a round-robin
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fashion. If a host replies, it is noted and removed from the list of
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hosts to check. If a host does not respond within a certain time limit
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and/or retry limit it will be considered unreachable.
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fping is meant to be used in scripts and its output is easy to parse.
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N.B. The binaries installed by this package are setuid root.
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