[tde-users] Re: Script genius needed

said Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users: | In case you did not solve this already: | | $ ping -i 3 -O -D 1.1.1.1 |\ | stdbuf -i 0 -o 0 awk '{ sub(/[0-9]{10}/, strftime("%Y-%m-%d | %H:%M:%S", substr($0,2,10))) } 1' |\ tee -a ~/frontier_downtime.log Thanks, Nik. I have my little script chugging along -- unfortunately, Frontier Communications has offered many proofs that it works. After a sufficient amount of time -- a month, I think, would be fine -- I'll be able to send a complaint to the FCC, who would have to approve the proposed sale of Frontier to Verizon. It might interest the FCC to know that Frontier still hasn't done the improvements that the government paid them to do years ago. The routine seems to be: Frontier gets lots of money. Frontier declared bankruptcy and gets the debt excused. Frontier gets more money. Frontier sells out to Verizon. In every step, they don't do anything it was paid to do. They don't even replace the backup batteries, so if the power blinks for a millisecond, not even long enough to make the clocks flash, their internet and phone services go down and don't come back for half an hour. The log is to demonstrate how bad they are. | You can put this line in /etc/rc.local and it will do it's work in the | background. Thanks very much. I may do this. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/