Ping with SSH

[garetjax76]

When I try to use the ping command in a SSH session (with bash), this is the response:

bash: ping: command not found 

I was a bit disappointed. How could it be?
I tried everything I found on the net: yum install iputils (packet not found), I even downloaded a generic RPM package for PPC64 (too many missing dependencies).

Is it really possible that one can't launch a simple ping from SSH?
Yes, I know OS/400 PING command, but I needed to create a script in order to monitor a particular host.

[Scott Klement]

On IBM i, PING is provided as a system command not a PASE command. This provides you with two possible solutions:

1. You could call the system ping command from your script.
2. Or, you could find/write/buy a ping command for PASE and install it and run that.

For example, you could do this in your script:

system "ping rmtsys('www.google.com')"

[garetjax76]

Thanks Scott, I didn't know about the "system" command. Nice!