On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> > if I use the system call like this
> > system ("ping localhost > pinginfo");
> > But in linux this will keep on going how can I set up a time on that ?
>
> Use the -n option to give it a set number of times it pings:
>
> system("ping -n 20 localhsot > pinginfo");
Oops, sorry, wrong version of ping. Use the -c option. -n gives numeric
output.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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