Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:42:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not a default number of pings? Message-ID: <200001180642.WAA20096@apollo.backplane.com> References: <01dd01bf6145$e13d6c80$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> <3884074F.E13FB1BB@softweyr.com>
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:> :> How about a MAX_PING=3600 in make.conf or so? :> :> I've supplied patches earlier, but they've been rejected. : :Maybe a PING_OPTS environment variable would be more acceptable. You could :set yours to "-c 4" system wide, and this might be more palatable to :FreeBSD in general. : :-- : "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" : :Wes Peters Softweyr LLC :wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ We've had the 'ping' argument before. I personally don't think we should touch it. There are thousand ways one can hang oneself and adding environment variables or config options or default limitations for no other reason then to avoid someone accidently leaving the program running is a waste of time and an unnecessary pollution of the code. Just create a global alias in /etc/csh.cshrc (etc) if you want to impose a default pint count limit. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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