On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:23:17AM -0400, debian user wrote: > i would like to set up a ping server for my office. I however have not > found a simple way of recieving a responce of "dead" or "alive". I am > not to concerned about time etc? Try fping. richard@rms:~$ fping plato plato is alive richard@rms:~$ Richard