[illumos-Developer] making -a default for ifconfig?

[Alasdair Lumsden]

Hi Andre,

On 30 May 2011, at 00:04, Andre van Eyssen wrote:

> On Sun, 29 May 2011, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> 
>> I'd say the same of "ping -s" being the default. I (and no doubt many others) often use ping as a quick way to simultaneously check if a host is up, and what its IP address is. Knowing whether its alive or not is not terribly useful, -s gives you that + more info.
> 
> -1 to the ping idea - Solaris ping has had the same behaviour forever and I'm sure I'm not the only one with a "ping foo && blah" habit.

Out of interest, on your PATH, which comes first - /usr/bin or /usr/gnu/bin ?

Cheers,

Alasdair