[tde-users] Script genius needed

Some months ago I asked here if there were a way to log my ISP's downtime, and got a useful answer. Today I've been attempting to refine it a bit, and there is some progress, but not success. Here's what I have: [code] #!/bin/bash #monitor frontier communications downtime ping -i 3 -O -D 1.1.1.1 | while read row do awk '{ sub(/[0-9]{10}/, strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", substr($0,2,10))) } 1' <<< "$row"| tee ~/frontier_downtime.log done [/code] Most of it is simply converting internet time to human time, because I might have to use it to support a complaint. It runs fine in a terminal, a nice ping and result every three seconds, but only writes the first line, the first ping result, to the logfile. (And yes, ir's probably sloppy.) What do I have wrong? Bonus question: any way to keep it running with the terminal closed? I can't even use & to free the terminal; I'd like to start the thing and have it cook merrrily away without a terminal open or even minimized, and use top or killall to dispose of it if that becomes necessary. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/