[PLUG] Adding timestamp to log file entry

[Larry Brigman]

That seems to be an issue with the dhcp server configuration.  Yes, they
can set the reservations to be very short but to constantly shift them is
overkill - especially if you have a business account.
Do you know your netmask?
That is a class A address space that is being used so 16,777,216 hosts in
the 50/8 network unless
it is being segmented.


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Robert Citek wrote:
>
> > Assuming that is in a bash script, you can do something like this:
> >    echo $(date +%FT%T%:z) ${NEWIP} >> "/home/rshepard/getiplog"
>
> Robert,
>
>    I left out the first 'T' because I did not see 'FT' on the man page; the
> time string is not separated from the date string. Just added the 'T' to
> the
> format.
>
>    What's interesting is that I now see how frequently Frontier changes my
> IP
> address. Yes, it's unreasonable to change it so frequently, but ... that's
> just the way it is with them. Here's the log since I changed the script
> yesterday afternoon:
>
> 50.38.103.143
> 2014-09-25 19:30:08 50.38.109.240
> 2014-09-26 00:30:07 50.38.84.71
> 2014-09-26 01:30:02 50.38.71.234
> 2014-09-26 03:30:02 50.38.79.177
> 2014-09-26 04:30:06 50.38.97.179
> 2014-09-26 05:30:03 50.38.126.250
>
> The top IP address was current when I modified the cron script.
>
> Thanks for the lesson,
>
> Rich
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