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! -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/