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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: why did eth0 suddenly stop working? Stranger than strange!
From:       Patrick Shanahan <paka () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2023-07-16 19:45:46
Message-ID: 20230716194546.GA14582 () wahoo ! no-ip ! org
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* Daniel Bauer <linux@daniel-bauer.com> [07-16-23 15:36]:
> 
> 
> Am 16.07.23 um 21:19 schrieb Dave Howorth:
> > On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 21:01:26 +0200
> > Daniel Bauer <linux@daniel-bauer.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Am 16.07.23 um 20:47 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> > > > On 2023-07-16 19:01, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> > > > > Like every 8 days my mini-computer loses cabled network connection
> > > > > (see original post for details). It happened again today.
> > > > 
> > > > Is it every 8 days, like a clock?
> > > 
> > > I can only say from my emails here to that list that I sent the days
> > > it happened: 2., 9, and 16. of July, always during the night before
> > > (don't know the hour, just see in the morning that it doesn't work
> > > anymore)
> > > 
> > > Always the night from Saturday to Sunday...
> > 
> > Err, so you're saying it is every seven days, not every eight days?!
> > And always the same day of the week?
> 
> Yeah, counting the days gets more complicated when one gets old, it seems
> :-)
> 
> But yes, until now it occurred always in the night from Saturday to Sunday.
> 
> > What about the time; is that
> > regular?
> 
> I don't know.
> 
> The last times I repaired it Sunday morning, today I did it in the
> afternoon. Maybe it stops later the next time?
> 
> > (you could leave ping in a shell script loop every minute or
> > so to see)
> 
> How could I do that so that it only pings once every half an hour and adds
> the result to a file? When I type "ping ..." it pings endless until I break
> it with ctrl-c...

use the force Luke,
  look at the man file for "-i" and "-c"


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