svn commit: r187212 - in stable/7/sbin: . atacontrol ddb devfs dhclient fdisk fsck_ffs geom geom/class/part geom/misc ifconfig init ipfw md5 mdconfig mksnap_ffs mount natd ping ping6 sconfig

[Daniel Gerzo]

Author: danger (doc committer)
Date: Wed Jan 14 10:02:47 2009
New Revision: 187212
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187212

Log:
  MFC r187067:
  
  Reviewed by:	trhodes, keramida

Modified:
  stable/7/sbin/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/atacontrol/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/ddb/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/devfs/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/dhclient/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/fdisk/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/fsck_ffs/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/geom/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/geom/class/part/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/geom/misc/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/ifconfig/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/init/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/ipfw/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/md5/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/mdconfig/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/mksnap_ffs/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/mount/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/natd/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/ping/ping.8
  stable/7/sbin/ping6/   (props changed)
  stable/7/sbin/sconfig/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/7/sbin/ping/ping.8
==============================================================================
--- stable/7/sbin/ping/ping.8	Wed Jan 14 09:11:13 2009	(r187211)
+++ stable/7/sbin/ping/ping.8	Wed Jan 14 10:02:47 2009	(r187212)
@@ -506,14 +506,18 @@ Others may use completely wild values.
 .Sh EXIT STATUS
 The
 .Nm
-utility returns an exit status of zero if at least one response was
-heard from the specified
-.Ar host ;
-a status of two if the transmission was successful but no responses
-were received; or another value
-(from
-.In sysexits.h )
-if an error occurred.
+utility exits with one of the following values:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It 0
+At least one response was heard from the specified
+.Ar host .
+.It 2
+The transmission was successful but no responses were received.
+.It any other value
+An error occurred.
+These values are defined in
+.In sysexits.h .
+.El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr netstat 1 ,
 .Xr ifconfig 8 ,