ping

michshelly · 02-13-2006, 07:49 PM

Hello,

I have installed Fedora 2. I pinged my other machine and the pinging will not stop. How do I stop it? I thought it would be like Windows and stop after 4.

Your help would be welcome.
Thanks
Michelle

Kristijan · 02-13-2006, 07:51 PM

Ctrl+C will stop it

-Kristijan

hlpboplz · 02-13-2006, 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michshelly

Hello,

I have installed installed Fedora 2. I pinged my other machine and the pinging will not stop. How do I stop it? I thought it would be like Windows and stop have 4.

Your help would be welcome.
Thanks
Michelle

ctrl-c should do it.

haertig · 02-13-2006, 07:53 PM

Hit ctrl-c (hold down the "control" key and hit the "c" key)

haertig · 02-13-2006, 07:55 PM

Wow. Three people typing a response at once. And I was last

Honestly, I wasn't trying top be redundant. I just type slow I guess!

michshelly · 02-13-2006, 08:02 PM

Aah that did it. Thankyou .

timmeke · 02-14-2006, 01:50 AM

Next time, you can also use:
ping -c <number>
to ping the given number of times.

If you want to always have, let's say 4 pings, then you could create an alias like this:
alias ping="ping -c 4"
Put that in your .bashrc file or .profile in your home directory and from then on, when you type "ping" it will
be interpreted as "ping -c 4", so you'll get just 4 pings.

robbbert · 04-26-2006, 04:24 PM

After all, why don't you Ctrl+C?