hi richard, glad to have you back with us.` :)
thanx for the response, but i guess i didn't explain well enough.
i was wondering if i could get my machine to call me at work
and play a sound file to let me know it was going to sign on to
my isp and get my mail. i sometimes use my dial-up at work
and would get a nasty email from my isp if i had two connections
at the same time with my one account. it was just a thought i
had while getting my mail filtering/forwarding to my cell phone
scheme underway. don't put a lot of effort into this one, i can
easily just set my watch to ring at 11:30 to remind me not to
be online while cron activates the mail thingy. i was just real
curious to know if it was possible and how difficult.
thanx again.
Richard Adams wrote:
> >
> > thanx to all for the direction in getting sendmail/procmail
> > setup. i was just wondering if anyone knows if there is a
> > way to get linux to phone a number, then play a sound file,
> > like "tell michael to get offline, i'm about to check mail."
>
> I dont see why it cant be done in a script, or rather 2 scripts, one on the
> remote machine and one on the target machine.
>
> It would have to be a system spesificly written object, but yes why not.
> It would mean 1) having root priv's on both machines, 2) keeping the script
> on both machines a secret, imagen if others found it, if you would like to
> send more information about the 2 machines, i am sure i could help you some
> and others could also chip in.
>
> >
> > thanx.
> >
> > --
> > michael.jones {
> > erleichda.archiving; usa
> > }
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Regards Richard.
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