On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, William Schwartz wrote:

> ping <host> -c 1
> 
> it hangs when the host is unavailable, but if the host is up, it will ping
> once normally.

read the man page carefully.  That is the correct behaviour for the
code (though I wish it wasn't).

-- 

Duncan Hill                     Sapere aude
One net to rule them all, One net to find them,
One net to bring them all, and using Unix bind them.



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