>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rick> I was wanting to log the uptime somehow (and consequently the
Rick> down time) and thought the easiest method would be to run
Rick> something like "ping -i 600 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX >> Logfile.txt"
Rick> running backgrounded on a server I have at home. This works
Rick> fine but I would love to be able to date & time stamp each line.
Rick> The -T option does not seem to do what I want to do and as my
Rick> coding is limited (read almost none existent), I rely on command
Rick> line routines.
why not rather ping with just a few packets, and datestamp it?
Something like,
while :
do
date
ping -c 3 a,b.c.d
sleep 60
done >> logfile
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