From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 26 14:06:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18826 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:06:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18648; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:06:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from olvaldi.ifi.uio.no (2602@olvaldi.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.43]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id XAA27948; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:05:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by olvaldi.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:05:08 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Dillon Cc: "Dag-Erling C. Sm\xf8rgrav" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c References: <199808262100.OAA06770@freefall.freebsd.org> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 26 Aug 1998 23:05:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: Matt Dillon's message of "Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:00:04 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAB18716 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Matt Dillon 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