Hi there

Create a loop every second at hh:mm:ss.000000

For netwerkmonitoring I want to create a loop of 1 second and do a ping to another server

The result of this ping, with timeout set to 10000msec I want to store in a logfile. This logfile (ping-test_yyyymmdd.log will so be filled with yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss;<response in ms> entries

- To do a ping with timeout of 10000ms -> No problem
- Store in logfile -> No problem
- Change the logfile very day -> No problem
- Fork a child, as some pings can time out and you don't want to influence the next ping -> No problem

Create a loop every 1000ms at the exact second, that I don't understand. So after 12:00:00 localtime start an event (fork child) at
hh:mm:ss:ms
12:00:00.000
12:00:01.000
12:00:02.000
12:00:03.000
etc, etc

Any clue on how to handle that issue?

Thanks in advance

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