Re: Wishlist for woody+1

[Peter Eckersley <pde@cs.mu.oz.au>]

Perhaps bash, at least, could be patched to recognise when it is running
as an init replacement, and do an alias ping='ping -c 3' :) ?

> No, because I'm generally unfamiliar with the situation. However, I have
> a standard workaround: 
> 
> ping -c 1 hostname # and yes, you can forget the -c 1 too... howbout 
>                    # a special prompt to remind you that youi're in
>                    # emergency mode? like "noctrlC $ "?
> 
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Peter Eckersley
Department of Computer Science   &                  mailto:pde@cs.mu.oz.au 
IP Research Institute of Australia             http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~pde
The University of Melbourne               


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