From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 7 17:52: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC9437B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 17:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust22.tnt6.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.10.187.22]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29074; Mon, 7 May 2001 17:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02170; Mon, 7 May 2001 20:51:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105080051.UAA02170@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: ping In-Reply-To: <20010507095827.A87664@itouchnz.itouch> from Jonathan Chen at "May 7, 2001 09:58:27 am" To: jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz (Jonathan Chen) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 20:51:39 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Check man ping. There is an option, -c, that allows you to specify how many times you want to ping. Ian As told by, Jonathan Chen > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:59:21PM -0400, Jeff Kolp wrote: > > How do you stop the ping command. It keeps pinging and I cant stop unless I alt cant del to force reboot > > > > A Control-C works for me. You could also try killing the process. A > reboot is a somewhat drastic solution. > -- > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Computers are like air conditioners. > They stop working when you open Windows. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message