Response from remote host

[Andrew Cherenson]

In article <288*finn.drablos at sintef.no> finn.drablos at sintef.no (Finn Drablos) writes:
>A short and simple (?) question:
>How do I test, from within a shell script, whether a remote
>machine is responding to network requests or not?
>
>I guess that I am looking for something like ping, but
>according to the man page, ping should not be used in
>scripts ...
>
>Regards,
>
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Try "rpcinfo -u HOST portmap" (see rpcinfo(1M) for details).