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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!mcsun!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ever backgrounded a ping or gotten fping to work??? Date: 2 Sep 1996 11:53:39 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <50eebj$e6@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <507iud$m6r@news-2.csn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Adrian Goins (admin@softsolut.com) wrote: : 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??? Redirect stdin from /dev/null. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....