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GNU Alive is a periodic ping program. It functions similarly to ‘ping -n -i PERIOD HOST’ (so if you are comfortable typing that at a shell prompt you probably do not need GNU Alive).
Historical Note: Older releases (up through 1.4.0) included auto-login functionality for some (Swedish) ISPs.
Latest release: 2.0.1 (2012-09-12)
Alive source code can be found in the subdirectory /gnu/alive/ on your favorite GNU mirror. For other ways to obtain Alive, please read How to Get GNU Software.
The official manual for Alive is online in several formats.
If you would like any new feature to be included in future versions of Alive, please visit the Alive project pages.
Please remember that development of Alive is a volunteer effort, and you can also contribute to its development. For information about contributing to the GNU Project, please read How to help GNU.
If you think you have found a bug in Alive, then you should file a bug report at the Alive project pages. For usage problems, please send a recipe that duplicates the error. A recipe is the sequence of shell commands executed that duplicates the behavior.
You may browse the current Alive sources or view the Alive project pages on Savannah.
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Updated: 2012-09-12 09:20:57 UTC ttn