Anno domini 2024 Sat, 15 Jun 18:23:36 +0000 dep via tde-users scripsit: > greetings, everybody. > > living out in the woods, i am cursed by having to use frontier > communications dsl for phone/internet. the phone is voip, so when the > internet is down everything is down. there is no cellular service here. so > when it does gown i have to drive 10 miles to a cell signal and sit in my > car while over the course of a couple hours i end up getting no > satisfaction from "support" located in a part of the world where english > is not the first language. > > the internet goes down multiple times daily, usually for a few minutes but > often more. it goes down for a few seconds multiple times each hour. it > has been this way for years. > > it is my intention to make a formal complaint, and to do this i need to > provide proof. unless there's a better method, i need to come up with an > application that runs all the time and pings, say, cloudfare at 1.1.1.1, > every few seconds and logs the results. it would be helpful if the logs > were readily readable. > > there seem to be several such applications, but the ones i can find are for > windows and seem to be overkill, logging numerous things i don't need. i > just need to log this particular datum, in pretty fine detail, for a long > period of time, on a linux machine. > > anyone know if there is such a thing and if so, what it would be? i would > love if there were a tde utility that did this, but i don't know if such > exists. > > thanks! $ ping -t 3 -O -D 8.8.8.8 | tee the_big_bad_file.log Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
