----- Original Message ----- > Thanks Dave, the patch works as intended for me. I now get a 10 sec > timeout instead of the 10 min timeout I had before, followed by the > message "failed to pull epic code .....". Right, although I'm surprised that you have a 10 second timeout. If I put in a valid name of a machine that I've shut down, the "ping -c 1 <name>" only takes about 1 second to return a failure. Anyway, I'll queue that change for crash-6.0.9. Thanks, Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility