Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 23:33:27 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new ping option(s) ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970409232653.467A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <17886.860598824@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > See, for someone like me, a beep is even less than relevant. My PC > has such a weak speaker that I can't even hear it over the fans and so I > might as well not have a speaker at all. For myself, I'd substitute in > something like ``xmessage "$1 is alive!"'' so I could actually see it. > > In other words, one man's feep is another man's popup notifier and > ping shouldn't be making unwarranted assumptions! :-) > > Jordan > *grin* You're missing out on such a LOVELY quality ping too... :) Personally I like it, since it lets me jump behind the server racks and do the "jiggle" thing (with the cables, silly:) .. Although I'd love to see ping -f -a <host> work.:) *hands Jordan a 5W amplifier and speaker for his PC squaker* :) I missed the original postings(flames?) about the audiable ping, anyone bring up the option of an external "ping!" program? Sorta like ping -a -F ping.sh hostname and ping.sh catted a nice submarine ping reply .au to the sound device or something. :) (Oh god I'm going to get carried away soon.. I'd better leave it and goto sleep :) Cya -- Adrian Chadd | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... <adrian@psinet.net.au> | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..)
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