I do almost exactly this task using a small perl script: #!/usr/local/bin/perl
`/bin/date`; `traceroute imap.unc.edu`; __END__ and have a crontab entry running the script >> /var/log/pinglog at the appropriate times. Hope this helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I think this should be simple... > > I want to run a command (traceroute) and have the date/time listed > before the trace output. I'll do this multiple times and want to keep > appending to the same file. > > The results will ideally look something like this: > > 'date/time' > (trace results) > > 'date/time' > (trace results) > > and so on... > > > Thanks in advance > Hall > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
