[olug] ping stop

[nate]

thanks, ^c works for everything but a game i had up called nebulous..... I can 
load the game but nothing stops it but a reboot.  What to do about that ?

thanks, for all the help guys this is really helping me






On Sunday 07 September 2003 12:59 am, Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
> Kenton Brede wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 08:45:15PM -0500, nate wrote:
> >>How do I stop a ping?  After I ping an address it either sits there
> >> waiting on me to do something or it just keeps pinging.
> >
> > Hit ^c (control c)
>
> Or you could start ping with a certain number you'd like it to quit at,
> say 10 packets:
> ping -c 10 hostname
>
> Ctrl + c is a catch all for stopping a running program. Try running
> 'top'. You can either quit top by sending it a 'q' for quit, or you can
> quit top by sending it a Ctrl + c.
> Hell, I think Ctrl + c even works to stop a ping in Windows.
>
> -- Ryan
>
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug