I usually just open another (virtual) terminal and kill the ping. Sounds like you might benefit from defining an alias for ping.
Shane ... On Mon, Apr 5th, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Clovis Pereira wrote: > Hi, > Sometimes, I forgot to type the cont parameter using the ping command > on a > 3215 terminal (example: ping -c 4 <ip.address>). In 3215 terminals, > ping > without a count result in a forever command. The unique way to stop > it (al > least the unique I know, without terminate the session) is a Ctrl-C. > In > this case, I open a Notepad session, click a Ctrl-C pair (^C), paste > and > copy it in the 3215 session, so stoping the ping command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
