Date: 26 Aug 1998 23:05:08 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Dag-Erling C. Sm\xf8rgrav" <des@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c Message-ID: <xzp90kbfo8r.fsf@olvaldi.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Matt Dillon's message of "Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:00:04 -0700 (PDT)" References: <199808262100.OAA06770@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > The problems we've had with an unlimited -c has been more one of > forgetfullness... a user will start a ping going and forget to kill > it. It would be nice if ping did *NOT* default to an 'infinite' count, > even if users are allowed to specify an option to set an infinite count. POLA. Everybody else's ping has an infinite count by default. What you could do is add a login class entry to limit pings, or something. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no
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