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From: admin@softsolut.com (Adrian Goins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Ever backgrounded a ping or gotten fping to work???
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 20:25:35 GMT
Organization: 100% Software Solutions
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I've got a FRAD that keeps bouncing our frame circuit, but all i have
to do it kill and restart the pppd and it works again.  I'd like to be
able to background a ping, but it won't do it from a script.  It
always suspends or stops.

I tried to compile fping, but it seems too damn tempermental to behave
(or even to compile)

Anyone got some nifty solution for this???

Thanks -
Adrian Goins
System Administrator / Internaut
100% Software Solutions, Inc.       http://www.softsolut.com
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