You are a network engineer who has been asked to confirm that the local network stack is alive and to…
You are a network engineer who has been asked to confirm that the local network stack is alive and to…: a task in endless-terminals-rootless-apptainer: Endless Terminals 1K: rootless Apptainer release (Harbor dataset). Launch a continuous (non-terminating) ICMP echo request (ping) toward the…
The task
Launch a continuous (non-terminating) ICMP echo request (ping) toward the loopback interface (127.0.0.1) **as a background process**. Redirect both stdout and stderr of that ping process into the file `/home/user/netdiag/ping.log`. Immediately after starting the command, record its PID in a one-line file called…