[Wolves] eth keep alive

[Ron Wellsted]

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 2:02 pm, fizzy wrote:
>  --- Aquarius <aquarius-lists at kryogenix.org> wrote:
> > Ah, but if you don't drop it to the background then
> > (a) it's slightly easier to kill (^C rather than
>
> "kill > %1") and (b) you can see it's still working...
>
> Personally it would annoy me if ping was taking up a
> console by itself, but I'd rather not get into a geeky
> argument about the pros and cons :) (mainly because
> i'll lose!)

Or use the line:
"* * * * * /bin/ping -c 1 serveronlan 2>&1 >/dev/null"
in root's crontab.  This will ping once every minute.

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Ron Wellsted
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