ping hostname

[subhashni]

Hi
I'm not able to terminate the message in the terminal(64 bytes from ip icmp_seq172 time=.0 ms)after running the comman "ping hostname".
Normally the ping command will end up with round trip message(if we terminate-right?).Please suggest me what is wrong in it.
Thanks

[Rodney Hills]

ping will continue until aborted. Sometimes a terminals interupt key gets changed from its usual ^C. Try control-\.

If that fails, log onto another session and use "kill" to terminate the ping.

-- Rod Hills

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Try :

# ping -o hostname

Regards!

...JRF...

[Sajid_1]

hello,

You can stop it with a 'Ctrl+C'

HTH

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Subhashni,

By default, the ping command will not terminate itself until you hit Control+C. To have it terminate itself, you need to use option -n . For example:

# ping host_name -n 1

will ping the host only once and terminate.

Hai

[subhashni]

Thank you all for the replies,my question is
in some hosts i can terminate the messages of course by using ctrl c,in some i do not.Just i want to know the cause for this.Thanks again thanks for your responses.
Thanks

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

it depends on the shell envvariables in which you are working , if you are able to do a cntrl c and get teh prompt back then there shoudl be no problem to terminate ping too , the better way amy be to change to a new shell and try it.


Manoj Srivastava

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Subhashni,

It depends on your stty settings. On hosts where you're able to use CTRL+C to terminate ping, your stty intr is set to ^C. You can run this command to verify:

# stty -a | grep intr

To set intr to ^C, do this:

# stty intr ^C

You may want to set it in system profiles .login, .profile.

Hai

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

You can specify the number of pings. Thus to execute 3-pings and terminate with the routes taken, do:

# ping -o hostname -n 3

Regards!

...JRF...

[subhashni]

Oh, i forgot to check the intr.Thank you guys.