Very nice, thanks Lawrence! Eric -------------------------------------------- Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro < ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:40:17 +1200, Eric Light wrote:

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I'm investigating a flaky printer, and was running ping -f to see when it went down. I got the following:

PING prn37.forlongs.local (10.7.140.37) 56(84) bytes of data. ..................................................... ..................................................... ..................................................... .......E.............................................

... what the heck is the 'E'? I can't find it in the man pages.

From ping.c in the iputils-ping package in Debian:

int receive_error_msg() { ... } else if (e->ee_origin == SO_EE_ORIGIN_ICMP) { ... if (options & F_FLOOD) { write_stdout("\bE", 2); ... }

This routine is called from ping_common.c when “An ICMP error arrived”. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug