[olpc-help] Setting the time

[William Bagwell]

On Thursday 21 February 2008, Doug Jones wrote:
> What happens if you do:
>
> ping time.nist.gov
>
> (that command runs on and on, so shut it up by hitting Ctrl-C when you
> get tired of it)

A "-c" and a number will prevent that. "ping -c 1 time.nist.gov" returns:

"PING time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from time.nist.gov (192.43.244.18): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=77.9 ms

--- time.nist.gov ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 77.978/77.978/77.978/0.000 ms"

Ctrl-C is still a good thing to learn though. Don't ask how I know:)
-- 
William